Your Council, Your Crisis
Your Council, Your Crisis: They're Deciding Your Future Right Now. Don't Sit This One Out. Let's talk about our money. Our services. Our community. Right now, behind the 246 pages of reports and the budget lines, decisions are being made that will shape every pothole on our streets, every hour of care for an elderly relative, every support service for our childrens school. And they’re being made from a position of sheer, stark desperation. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Telford & Wrekin Council is on the financial ropes, despite Cllr Lee Carter, leader of the council, and Labour MP Shaun Davies, both saying how great it is they'll be getting over £60 million in extra government funding! This year, they’re only balancing the books by emptying the emergency savings account— all £7.2m of it. It’s the financial equivalent of using your life savings to pay the gas bill. It works today, but tomorrow? It’s gone. And the storm hasn’t even hit yet. The real mon...




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