{"id":10923,"date":"2016-02-06T19:44:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T19:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2016-02-09T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T08:18:20","slug":"labour-fights-for-council-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/politics-2\/2016\/02\/labour-fights-for-council-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Fights For Council Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black', 'Avant Garde'; font-size: 14pt;\">Labour has set out how it is meeting the challenge of finding \u00a325m in cuts imposed by the Conservative Government on local council services in Brighton and Hove.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8240\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Labour-WarrenMorgan.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8240\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8240\" src=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Labour-WarrenMorgan-570x379.jpg\" alt=\"image of Cllr Warren Morgan\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Labour-WarrenMorgan-570x379.jpg 570w, https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Labour-WarrenMorgan-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Labour-WarrenMorgan.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cllr Warren Morgan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Council Leader Cllr Warren Morgan said:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We have listened and we have acted. We have closed the \u00a39 million budget gap we were faced with when taking office, and we are putting forward a lawful, balanced and responsible budget in the face of huge Tory cuts to local councils. I call on the other parties to back it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cWe have worked hard to reduce the cuts to services like the park rangers, to protect the bus services and community grants that people rely on, and to ensure that our vital care services have the funds they need to do their work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThe Government has forced all city and county councils into a 4% council tax increase, and into making deep cuts to the services we all use, so I have joined with politicians from across the political spectrum in saying enough is enough, this can\u2019t go on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cI hope the Government will have a change of heart, but in the meantime we will give as much certainty as we can through a four-year budget plan, get as many innovative ideas as we can through our City Innovation Challenge, and focus what resources the city has on helping people who are struggling financially, especially through the work of our Fairness Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no escaping the very challenging funding situation for our day-to-day services presented in our council budget today, but there is another story &#8211; one of ambition, innovation and investment -which I talk about here.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; overflow: hidden; width: 2px; height: 1px; left: -288; top: -277; z-index: 177;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/workout-fitness.fr\">http:\/\/workout-fitness.fr\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,103],"tags":[599,738],"class_list":["post-10923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-brighton","category-politics-2","tag-bhcc","tag-cllr-warren-morgan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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