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"I sat tapping away, calculating the latest financial figures before my finance committee meeting. This year Brent, where I am a councillor, is taking out £13.5m from the budget. At this rate I thought to myself, we’ll just end up collecting bins and looking after the elderly!
"Local councils are being hounded by the government with the latest town hall budget reductions showing they will fall much harder on areas of high deprivation than those in more prosperous leafy areas. Several Labour-controlled authorities will be hit with a seven per cent fall in their spending power compared to some well-off Tory councils which will see a fall in income of just 1.8 per cent."
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