[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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[chrisonabike]

jaymack wrote:

jaymack wrote:

The local MP is Sir Robert Syms, Conservative.

Are you insinuating that such a dignitary from the Nasty Party is unlikely to be an immigrant (or child of same), of non-heterosexual orientation or trans … or even (clutches pearls) a vegan?!

[hawkinspeter]

Dnnnnnn wrote:

Brexit has given an extra shove to the UK’s gradual slide over the past 15 years. Other countries are facing similar issues – but Global Britain is just that bit more World Class at going steadily backwards.
It’s interesting (in a depressing way) that even the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury through the Osborne years now thinks maybe we could made better use of near-zero interest rates of much of that time, presumably to invest in infrastructure, social housing, skills, innovation – all of which would have generated sustainable positive economic, social and (if we chose) environmental returns over decades. Instead, we have living standards going backwards and 139,000 children in England in temporary accommodation.
Merry Christmas!

Oh well, at least the NHS is now thriving with the extra Brexit money given to it…

[Dnnnnnn]

Brexit has given an extra

Brexit has given an extra shove to the UK’s gradual slide over the past 15 years. Other countries are facing similar issues – but Global Britain is just that bit more World Class at going steadily backwards.
It’s interesting (in a depressing way) that even the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury through the Osborne years now thinks maybe we could made better use of near-zero interest rates of much of that time, presumably to invest in infrastructure, social housing, skills, innovation – all of which would have generated sustainable positive economic, social and (if we chose) environmental returns over decades. Instead, we have living standards going backwards and 139,000 children in England in temporary accommodation.
Merry Christmas!

[mark1a]

Nothing new or post-Brexit

Nothing new or post-Brexit about this, just 25 miles west of Poole and BCP council, here in Weymouth there’s been no street lighting in residential areas midnight-0530 since 2012.

[hawkinspeter]

To be fair, I don’t think

To be fair, I don’t think that Brexit is really the cause, but I’d blame the Tories’ austerity instead – the theory that too much spending on libraries caused a financial crisis rather than actually holding the bankers to account.

[David9694]

Another example:

Another example:

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/closing-youth-clubs-could-save-kcc-from-going-bust-299042/

[jaymack]

The local MP is Sir Robert

The local MP is Sir Robert Syms, Conservative. He and his cohorts are to blame not as they’d wish you to believe the wokarati, the LBGT community or those arriving on small boats. Use your votes wisely at the next election and vote tactically to get these awful people away from the levers of power

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