Freeze but no strategy: the budget and public services
I think this “Guardian” take on the budget is too one sided by half but it does contain this interesting excerpt which is hard to argue with in terms of the implication of the latest budget and the public services we in Local Government provide. It tells us:
For all the tinkering on social care and school funding, public services will continue to diminish in volume, and employment. The state, defined as current public spending, will continue to shrink – from 35.4% of GDP to 33.4% by 2021-22 (pdf).