Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: Meanwhile in #Birmingham the local; government budgetary crisis has forced the ...

Meanwhile in #Birmingham the local; government budgetary crisis has forced the Council to sell £750mn of assets & cut expenditure by £300mn, while gaining exceptional clearance to levy 21% rise in council tax over the next two years.

Caught between a massive #equalpay settlement & a decade of budget attrition from the #Tories, as James Brackley, (Sheffield university) suggests the cuts 'all feels a bit scorched earth' leaving Birmingham Council in a downward doom loop of cuts & crisis.

h/t FT