What an utter crank, give councils autonomy over where they spend their budget and then reduce the budget... It's not 'my' fault it's the nasty council! I would never cut the thing for those urchins...er! um! I mean lovely kiddies.... pffft!!!!

Now poor David's aunty is chipping in ! he's well out of favour with his family - hope they disown the turd

She is?

Economists are predicting that four and a half years from now, British government spending is going to be 1% lower than it was in 2010. George Osborne who’s been trying to find wiggle room on all these controversial cuts is rationing our local councils more and not surprisingly, they are really feeling the pinch. Osborne wants a 77% cut in grants over a period of 10 years (it began 6 years ago) and that’s precisely why children’s centres, sheltered housing and social care homes are falling into sink holes. Local councils have had to increase the council tax in an attempt to fund social care.

This all comes back to policy decisions. This unnecessary desperation to show us all a budget surplus at the end of this current parliament regardless of creating long standing problems that our next government are going to inherit, is nothing other than bonkers.