Council Cuts

Councils in England are sacking staff to save money; e.g. Manchester reducing staff by 2000 in 2011, and reducing Frontline Services too. This is due to the current economic recession a new economic climate of cuts caused by cavalier bank gambling. With many involved getting huge bonuses for simply for doing their job , well or badly depending on your point of view.

We live in strange world of imbalances. For example:

Almost every city throughout the country provides advertising space to outdoor poster advertisers who get millions per year from such networks. Guess what – the council folks who issue permissions for this ask for hardly anything from these advertisers who are raking it in whilst the city is suffering shortfalls in funding and cutting back on services.

For providing multiples of these ad locations to these agencies the city, which itself gets virtually nothing, just a ‘peppercorn’ backhanded fee for planning permission, often waved through on a nod at council meetings also clutters up our streets and spoils our views – isn’t this curious?

If we have to have them why can’t they be beneficial to the public purse, rather than the pockets of a few individuals & company’s?