booh-keepers? After trovernment asked unem ment curs. it cuts are relecleo. nov can services Doic ..2. an he. i; areas iralne vidis lenants and residents 3.02* Ine way in which rateable value is 1'iu resuits in hignest rates tor The - Esidises local services through the method of the rate support This is partly assessed on the basis of the rateable value of the area with high levels receiving less support.
So, despite the fact that some inner city areas are in greatest need of support, they Working Chas these areas get stung wherever they turn: they pay higher rates and rents and receive relatively less government support for services! all. the tabour maintain services.
TOr and will accumulated Interest government grant.
— nOse challenged to provide adequate funds and extend think Supporters of Ted Knight object he asking where will the money come . zac TOT ....i..c... stage ande for building fron banks insurarce companies. ror they have to pay interest on the debt by payments amount nearly 45 per cent of Islington's total The April 1980, total oulstanding debi will be £401 million, courts. lining the finar: soon more Ire bul desperit on services lor inc workine class, Just people of Islington could do with £401 million! payment of interest Equate will kindly to he seizing will councils with the problem of paline bulang materiais and oiher things needed to keep services afloat.
Banks will attempt to regain their "investment' by action through the courts to claim council property, or freezing their CUNTENI stopping wage and other payments.
Government will respond
calling in the commissioners and the La fight. i start, Labour WILl the backing parties necolo unk uo win ane local members who will he in the firing line when councils go bust.
Party cooperation needs to spread io other unions, and support built up in the labour movement so that there is a rapid response when the courts and commissioners council. In the past miners have taken action defend account Scargill has promised the industrial support of miners to fight the cuts. by Opposition will through local struggle. But it cannot rest there. Many Labour councillors borough. councillors, the 01 a. Lauvul Government level MelE with a latoes ihe Tory chopped, striking nurses.
gather sector much to everyone's surprise we won. Labour The leadership of the Labour Parties. got a clear majority. clone dea (VIl and referring to possible resignations.
wele belg what they will do al lne ene of the year are big rate increases and perhaps some cuts Labour in office. as lne reams or cais. them out, is the same.
Socialist Challenge 29 November 10* The root of ou • porter society's ar= allocated. These decisions are taken a unrave! the knots site:
This has to y hand in hand ait a triti mu the tor mak: that, Labour Gorenness comes up with something better char Callaghan's version of cuts Unrealistic left rhetoric? Nor ai all. The miners strike brought doms the last Tory Government. Just think what combined by pube workers, miners and workers could do to Thatcher. resolution supporting cuts being carried ou There was a very bitter struggle in the GMC ar council called a delegate conference of all four constituenc The motion passed at the Norwood Labour Party GMC went up to that and there were two motions saying cuts shoukd be resisted but there should be rate increases and there was a motion supporting the cut The majority of the councillors fought for the position of implementing cuts, but again we It has to be said that the council leadership - much to its credit — reversed the decision k carry out the cuts when they saw the grass root feeling. The council is not carrying out the programme that we were before the cuts, but it is felt that this will lead to a large deficit at the We lost one battle however, in that the last took out the part of the resolution We regard that as very important. Quite a lot of mone! was saved by the council during the period cuts implemented but it's not certain The council leaderships position is that in law the deposit will have to be found out of the rates and we think that what will be proposed My opinion is that the issue is not whether as some put it, it is better to have a Lahnur council implementing cuts than a Tory council and that what we have to do at all costs i keef This is a false argumes wheeser care y