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FLOG your golf course to fund front-line public services, English councils were told yesterday after another huge funding cut.
Local authorities already facing a financial black hole saw their budgets slashed again by £4 billion in the Autumn Statement.
Parks, children’s centres, libraries, museums and leisure centres will be closed completely or scaled back as councils try to protect life-saving social care, the Local Government Association warned.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government