Whoever says scrapping 213 smaller councils could save £3 billion hasn’t been paying attention to Tory spaffing
Rubbish: who does the bins in your council area? A private firm? Expect much more privatisation if smaller councils are scrapped; the £3 billion we’re told would be saved has to be spent somewhere!
It seems some people really do have a blind spot.
Whoever wrote the report that says the following, for example:
Abolishing 213 smaller councils in England and replacing them with 25 new local authorities could save almost £3bn over five years, a report says.
The report for the County Councils Network says one body in each area would reduce complexity and give communities a single unified voice.
However, others argue bigger councils are unwieldy and undemocratic.
It’s a good point that bigger councils may be unwieldy and undemocratic, but the better point is that they won’t save a penny while we have a Tory government.
The money will be spent outsourcing decision-making to private consultants like PwC, Deloitte and McKinsey, and outsourcing work to private firms like Serco – who will probably go bust because they habitually offer to do it for too low a price after the bosses and shareholders have taken their enormous cut of (council taxpayers’) cash.
If this happens, just watch what happens and see if I’m right.
Source: Scrapping 213 local councils could save £3bn says report – BBC News
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This sort of thing never saves money it’s just politically advantageous. For example, getting rid of pesky Labour controlled councils that argue against the government. Oh and I expect that the charge for our garden waste bin will rocket from the current £30 a year that we pay in Mansfield to £80 or more like other areas, not to mention other cuts in services.