[David9694]

No more lollipop ladies, close paddling pools and turning off streetlights: How budget cutting BCP Council proposes to save millions

This will be coming to your area in one shape or another.  A few items below, with more in the pipeline as they still have a £12m gap. 

No America trade deal. Still, I was reading, a possibility of an India deal next year, which will fix everything. 

Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (Save £270,000) – They aim to remove community safety officers from Poole Town Centre, Christchurch Town Centre and Boscombe.

Monitoring CCTV (Save £49,000) – Reduce live monitoring of the cameras by 15-30 per cent and to seek support from partner agencies to fund the service. This could mean cameras will no longer be watched by staff at off-peak times.
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Switching off street lighting (Save £68,000) – Turn off streetlights after midnight to 6am on quieter residential roads within the Poole area.

School Crossing Patrol (Save £12,000) – Remove school crossing patrols from locations that have existing crossing facilities and remove school crossing patrols from locations that, following a survey, do not meet the threshold for a patrol.

https://www.dorset.live/news/dorset-news/bcp-council-savings-budget-cuts-8924988

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[Rich_cb]

Nobody is entitled to lie
Nobody is entitled to lie about someone else regardless of the time of year.

[Rendel Harris]

And a very happy Christmas to

And a very happy Christmas to you too sweetie. Hugs.

[Rich_cb]

You didn’t fake them but you
You didn’t fake them but you did deliberately and dishonestly misrepresent them.

You know that wasn’t my position as I made it deliberately and abundantly clear to you during our discussion at the time. You can’t claim you don’t remember that discussion so the only option left is that you lied about its content.

Don’t try and belittle me when you’re the one who’s dragging up discussions from months ago, then flagrantly lying about their content. How devoid of meaning must your life be for you to think that’s a worthwhile use of your time?

I’ll leave you to your fantasies of photographic memory and the vivid little life you’ve created for yourself..

[jaymack]

Alternatively you could just

Alternatively you could just accept that everyone’s entitled to thier views while taking the opportunity wish all your fellow cyclists a very happy Christmas and a properous New Year. Easy really…

[Rendel Harris]

Oh, did I fake these posts

Oh, did I fake these posts where you assured us the deal was imminent? In all those posts you’ve shown you claimed that the India deal was about to happen, just because you added “only time will tell” doesn’t make you any less wrong or make your claim that Brexit was about to be justified any less dishonest. For God’s sake you silly little man, sit down, have a glass of port and a mince pie and perhaps think about next year commenting about cycling on this cycling website instead of only ever banging on about Brexit and your other tiresome rightwing obsessions, complete with graphs.

 

[Rich_cb]

It turns out Rendel is a liar
It turns out Rendel is a liar.

I’m shocked I tell you…

Here’s the original discussion which he has unsurprisingly neglected to link to:

https://road.cc/content/news/brexit-blamed-london-paris-ride-set-end-next-year-302871

I made it very clear to him multiple times that the deal wasn’t guaranteed to go through. He’s either simply forgotten which makes his claims of photographic text memory a lie or he’s chosen to deliberately lie about my posts.

Either way he’s shown himself to be fundamentally dishonest.

[Rich_cb]

Not everything is to do with
Not everything is to do with Brexit. Shocking news to you I know but that’s the way it is.

Demographics are a far bigger deal than Brexit and will be for the foreseeable future.

You might think that long term we’re better off in a stagnant protectionist trading bloc. I disagree.

The actual truth of the matter won’t be apparent for at least a decade, in the meantime blaming every local authority cutback on Brexit comes across as a little unhinged.

[Rich_cb]

I know you’re a stickler for
I know you’re a stickler for language Rendel so I find it odd that you’d conflate those phrases with a ‘confident assurance’.

I was under the impression that ‘confidently’ meant ‘little room for doubt’. That’s rather at odds with the phrases ‘appears to be’ and ‘if it gets over the line’ wouldn’t you agree?

Perhaps you could kindly give us the link to that discussion so we could get more detail than just a cherry picked screenshot?

[Rendel Harris]

Rich_cb wrote:

Rich_cb wrote:

As you neatly demonstrated earlier, sometimes it’s easy to misconstrue such things. ‘If it happens’ can easily be mistaken for ‘it will happen’ for example.

Yes indeed, very easy to misconstrue somebody saying “The India deal appears to be on the cusp of final sign off” and “[The India deal] looks like it’s getting pretty close” as meaning that the India deal appears to be on the cusp of final sign off and looks like it’s getting pretty close, apparently now those statements have been shown to be nonsense that’s not what they meant at all.

[Rich_cb]

I just assumed that from your
I just assumed that from your previous post. As you neatly demonstrated earlier, sometimes it’s easy to misconstrue such things. ‘If it happens’ can easily be mistaken for ‘it will happen’ for example.

Glad to have you on board. Let’s squeeze those wealthy property owning boomers and gen xers until the pips squeak.

[Rendel Harris]

Rich_cb wrote:

Rich_cb wrote:

I can’t imagine why a left wing Gen Xer living in London would be opposed to the progressive taxation of unearned property wealth…

Do please show me where I’ve said that I’m opposed to that, either in this discussion or elsewhere? I’ll wait.

[Rich_cb]

It doesn’t stop with the
It doesn’t stop with the boomers, the older portions of gen X are virtually indistinguishable from the boomer generation in terms of wealth etc.

Until we get some redistribution of that generational wealth gap the ability if the country to pay for necessary public services will be sorely diminished.

[Rich_cb]

Yet the English NHS still
Yet the English NHS still vastly outperforms the Welsh version…

As does the English education system.

Here in Wales the ‘show’ you describe would be a big improvement when it comes to public service provision.

[Rich_cb]

The point I’m making David is
The point I’m making David is that there are much bigger changes afoot than Brexit.

Rather than assuming any negative story is because of Brexit maybe you should ask yourself why a record tax take is still insufficient to cover public services? What could possibly be driving the increased cost of public service provision?

Demographics are going to be the major story across most of the world’s advanced economies in the next few decades. The cuts you’ve highlighted are just the beginning of that story.

[Rich_cb]

1. GDP does not equal tax
1. GDP does not equal tax take.
2. The predictions are over 15 years, not immediate.
3. The OBR have been wrong in almost every forecast they’ve made recently. If they can’t get a forecast right 6 months into the future then treating a prediction for 15 years time as gospel seems a bit optimistic.

I can’t imagine why a left wing Gen Xer living in London would be opposed to the progressive taxation of unearned property wealth…

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