Thursday 21 February 2008

Livesey Lost

Sorry, Kids. You Lost.Yesterday's full meeting of Southwark Council voted to close the Livesey Museum for Children on 29 February. BBC News managed to find a propagandist for Communities and Local Government who claims there was no need to cut services as next year "Southwark Council will benefit from a 2% increase in core funding". If you accept Government's fiddled statistics, inflation is running at more than 3%. So a 2% rise in funding for councils will be another shortfall. The reality of inflation at my three local supermarkets is far worse than Government claims: prices of basic food items have risen by 10% since Christmas! Recent energy increases have been around 15%. So Government is lying through its teeth when it claims 3% inflation. Gordon's war on London's councils and English culture will be even more destructive in 2009.

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