The Government is vandalising Britain, says Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell in his Week In Westminster column in today's Grimsby Telegraph.
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It's all done under the pretext of paying off debt, but it's increasing it because of falling revenues and the rising costs of misery.
Eric Pickles is vandalising local government by cutting its funding by 26 per cent.
Grimsby loses £155 per head while well-healed areas of the South, like Richmond, lose £16 per head.
Other councils are closing libraries (12 in Newcastle), swimming pools, leisure facilities, reducing rubbish collections and cutting back on social care.
So compared to most, North East Lincolnshire has done a good job of defending services and holding council tax down.
Yet it's still been forced to cut staff and reduce council tax relief, which will hit the poor.
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