Sentence examples for cutting council from inspiring English sources

Earlier this week, the Guardian and the anti-cuts campaigners False Economy demonstrated that the impact of cutting council tax benefit and transferring its operation to councils will mean a £120 annual increase for the poorest families.

In some areas, in-vessel composting and anaerobic digestion are playing a key role in cutting council spending on landfill tax and reducing methane emissions".

February 2007 After cutting Council Tax by three percent, Greenhlagh tells 18 Doughty Street TV of the "horrible contrast" between rich and the poor in the LBHF.

Since the government started cutting council funding in 2010, 340 libraries have closed nationwide as non-essential services bear the brunt of local authority cuts.

To make things worse, there was what he still sees as the simple iniquity of the government's actions, which arguably had a distinct flavour of class war, waged from the top: drastically cutting council funding per head in predominantly Labour areas, while more affluent, Tory-inclined places were comparatively untouched.

"Rather than cutting council tax the mayor should be providing the funding to keep these fire stations open," he said.

But local government leaders said they were "vehemently opposed" to cutting councils out of the system.

I understand the government needs to make cuts and therefore this means local councils have to pass these on, but I think cutting the council tax benefit is not the right way to go about it and it will ultimately end up costing government and local government more money in the long run.

Sure, he talked of Tory councils cutting and freezing council tax; there was an attack on Labour local authorities for "wasting" money and a plea not to let them do locally what he said they had done to the whole country before 2010.

But at the very least it buries the absurd Tory lie that Labour councillors are cutting vital council jobs just to make a political point.

With joined-up thinking, you don't keep cutting local council capability to deal with the new flooding responsibilities they've been given".