Red Wall

[albie]

It looks like the councils in deprived areas are to be even worse off, with funds transferred to wealthy areas:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/25/former-red-wall-areas-could-lose-millions-in-council-funding-review

So Council Tax will rise to take up the slack, just as services continue to deteriorate.
Who would have thought that Johnson would see this as "levelling up" the UK economy?

[Filo]

It looks like the councils in deprived areas are to be even worse off, with funds transferred to wealthy areas:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/25/former-red-wall-areas-could-lose-millions-in-council-funding-review

So Council Tax will rise to take up the slack, just as services continue to deteriorate.
Who would have thought that Johnson would see this as "levelling up" the UK economy?

Looks like Christmas has come for the Turkeys

[DonnyOsmond]

At least we have the EU funding for poorer areas.

[BillyStubbsTears]

At least we have the EU funding for poorer areas.

Yep. £3bn for South Yorkshire alone over the next 7 years.

Still. We took back control, eh?

[tommy toes]

£3 billion of investment gone in a cross of a pencil by the little Englanders.

Do they learn? No they elect Boris Fackin Johnson and the Tory party who are renowned for their investment in areas like South Yorkshire...Not.

It beggars belief.