THE Prime Minister David Cameron has urged Brits to “pull together, work together and lead Britain to better days.”
But after reading the cuts Middlesbrough Council has been forced to endure, I just don’t see how that can be achieved.
Two sports centres, four libraries, eight youth and community centres and eight children’s centres are just a few of the establishments set to be axed.
One does wonder if the council will have anything left to administer.
This is where Mr Cameron’s obsessional mission he calls The Big Society is supposed to kick in, but on a scale of this magnitude – not a chance.
MPs and councillors will no doubt spend the coming months blaming one another.
The distribution of the nation’s wealth is unequally divided and certainly does not tip in the favour of Labour strongholds, such as Middlesbrough, with the town having to shoulder a nine per cent budget cut by Mr Cameron, compared to affluent Dorset receiving a one per cent budget increase.
The way David Cameron’s Tories are bashing the underclass it even makes Margaret Thatcher look saintly.
Stephen Dixon, Redcar.
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