#ukgov #localgov #localism

#localism in action - 2023 edition #localgov

Anyone else's tweetdeck died and gone to heaven since yesterday? User and notification columns just spinning. 'Enmuskification?'

Ymca estimate youth service spend" £429m in 2018/19, compared to £1.4bn in 2010/11 – a real terms decline of 70%." So that £3m should deffo reverse the rot. Yeah. Right. #localgov #austerity ymca.org.uk/outofservice

Always described twitter in presentations "as the best tool a policy person could have". Now will obviously need to add "until Musk broke it".

Huge. Birmingham City Council issues Section 114 notice - meaning it can't manage its catastrophic finances without help. Updates from Jane Haynes birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

Worth a read as you listen to Jeremy Hunt today. #ukpoverty Trussel Trust: Half of working families claiming Universal Credit ran out of food in the past month trusselltrust.org/2023/09/20/hal…

#waronmotorists stats for today. Sense these won't be published in the Mail. (report via Department for Transport gov.uk/government/sta…)

🚨 Austerity update 🚨 "With hindsight we probably should have taken advantage [of low interest rates] and borrowed more when times were more stable...and invested more." Former HMT permanent secretary (05-16) Nicholas Macpherson on Radio 4 Analysis ... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

#localgov #History

Oddly fascinating the sort of research that the UK foriegn office commissions. Especially compared to domestic focused #ukgov funded stuff.

#localgov #austerity

Word.

From the list of policy problems the "Yes Prime Minister" writers drew up when considering a new series just under 40 years ago: Should we be in Europe? Impending war in Middle East NHS waiting lists getting longer House prices rising again Lack of national transport policy

Coming over here... spending their money. hepi.ac.uk/2023/05/16/int… via Higher Education Policy Institute

#levellingup factoid of the day.

#ukpoverty

"Local man fails miserably with 'Glower At The Academics' face"

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