Blackpool and the pursuit of reason
The Tory leader of Blackpool Council on a regional BBC blog, saying why he went to London on Tuesday to argue that areas of deprivation should not be so bady hit by the local government cuts:
What’s particularly painful is the way the government is cutting area based grants which support poorer areas.
The Tory Leader of Blackpool Council, Peter Callow, says he doesn’t think the government has got its sums right or understands the position the town is in.
“I’m hoping any reasonable person would hear my plea and where I’m coming from,” he said.
A Tory ‘Ministerial Source’ on a Westminster-focused BBC blog:
My ministerial source explained that, during the Labour years, extra grants were given to poor areas – money, he said, “they were not due”. His point was that the Formula Grant councils receive from central taxation already includes additional funds taking account of the level of deprivation in an area. The new settlement, he explained, was simply “unwinding that process”.
There’s Blackpool, and there’s Westminster. There’s a ”reasonable person”, and there’s a Tory minister.
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