Money crunch hurting culina admits former city councillor who says he has been given ‘crap’ from city and county councils
In March, former city councillor Nick Wilkins, who lost his seat at the 2010 general election, told the Daily Mail: “Our council are trying to spend $8bn a year, I think, with a budget of just $60,000 for 2017/18.”
His claim has attracted particular attention because the former councillor, who has not previously run a council seat, said he had been given “crap”.
The allegations, which appeared in the Daily Mail yesterday (21 November), have not been substantiated, but Wilkins said he felt compelled to point out how ridiculous the comparison was – because, it is, to his experience, councils are “getting better and better at keeping your money under control” as a result of cuts to spending to local authorities.
“The council have tried very hard,” he told the paper, explaining: “They spent thousands바카라사이트 to bring a roof over your head, to build the new roads, to do this new technology – because they knew they wouldn’t be able to get the money back down to the private sector if they used that money to pay the bills.”
But Wilkins’ criticisms are not limited to council cuts.
In a Facebook message, he said of the recent local authority consultation on a £70m regeneration and beautification scheme in the 바카라사이트capital: “Why are so many council buildings in the City not considered as one of the capital’s ‘prestigious’ places for its residents, so that one in three of those who voted for the local authority should choose a private or public scheme to help them get onto the housing ladder?”
Meanwhile, at the Council of Britain, members recently told MPs they believed “migration” – meaning increasing numbers of people living in the UK and moving to the cities to get jobs – was driving up house prices.
In a speech on Monday, Tim Montgomerie, head of the UK’s housing department and a former housing minister, suggested the “migration” of people to cities such as Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds – home to more than half the country’s popul바카라ation – was causing house prices to rise faster than employment – meaning local government had failed to adapt.
“[Migration] is a powerful driver of house price growth,” Montgomerie told the committee, adding: “To a great degree, housing in these cities, it’s because of their proximity to major jobs centres