Stockport Council cuts

[Dave]

cuts have not had an impact  on community services.

....yet! The spending cuts don't take effect untill next next week!

[Miss Marple]

I think Stockpot MBC offer a great service to the community especially Social Services where cuts have not had an impact  on community services. 

[Duke Fame]

I support the cuts, local authority spending has gone therough the roof over the last 13 years. The scottish PM' s mismanagement has given us a 10% tax as council tax. At last we have a govt curtailing the local authority's incompetence

[Mr Marple]

It is certainly irresponsible to ignore the hard work of the FOMMP group whilst altering all that's been done by them.

It just goes to show the public that the council/government think they know better than to consult others opinions.

[belleesummerbee]

The devil will be in the detail which won't become apparent until after the May elections and you have placed your x in the box. Knowing the full extent of the cuts now would be like turkey's voting for Christmas and kissing good by to 4 more years at the trough of power.

[andy+kirsty]

We have elected Tories in Marple - yellow ones!!

Turfing the flowerbeds is going to be the thin end of the wedge.

Even today liberal democrat leaders up and down the country have written to the government to ask them to abate the pace of the cuts because the council leaders say they will hit the most vulnerable most, and Andrew Stunnell has dismissed their plight as 'pointless debate'

How he has changed his tune - do we have a green candidate?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/10/grassroots-lib-dems-anger-government-cuts

No passaran Comrades!

[Dave]

Disconcerting indeed - well done for stopping it! (What price the Big Society... :-(

[admin]

Woodbank Nursery is being closed (or it is being discussed with unions depending on what you read / hear) and there are moves afoot to grass over ornamental flowerbeds in our parks. Friends of Bramhall Park were featured on the front of the Stockport Times complaining about this last week.

They actually started to do it in Memorial Park last week and I managed to get the work suspended until the Friends of Memorial Park have discussed the situation with SMBC representatives. The work was started without FOMMP being notified (let alone consulted) which I find very disconcerting.

I imagine I will be posting more about this after the meeting with them on Friday but will probably start a new topic.

[Tricky]

There are a number of redundancies and also I have heard there will be no bulb planting.. or hanging baskets.. that sort of thing.

Stockport in bloom! not this year it would seem

[jimblob]

I noticed in the local paper, Council Leader Dave Goddard is planning to cut his waistline and lose 3 stone for charity. He doesn't seem to be cutting anywhere else having just spent £15M of our money on Grand Central, in his words putting his money where his mouth is. Sadly, he's failed to realise its not his money and more worryingly, its just increased the council's overdraft yet further. it would be cheaper to fill our potholes with rolls of fivers the way he seems to like spending money.

[moorendman]

Lots of news this week about cuts in budgets & services in local government , Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn, Trafford - any news from Stockport MBC yet?