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England’s 10 poorest council areas are being punished with funding cuts 16 times more severe than those made in Tory heartlands, Labour revealed yesterday.
Government support has been slashed by £782 for every home in the deprived local authorities since the Con-Dems came to power.
Families in Liverpool, Hackney, Newham, Manchester, Knowsley, Blackpool, Tower Hamlets, Middlesbrough, Birmingham and Hull have felt the worst effects of coalition cuts. All but one of the councils is run by Labour.
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
