When council leaders petition No 10 to end austerity, things are bad | Polly Toynbee

Labour councils have had enough. As another round of devastating cuts looms, the leader of Newcastle council has gone to the sourceWith the budget barely more than a week away, the queue of desperate petitioners would stretch down Whitehall, far out of sight. If austerity is over, who’s first in line? In the battle of crises, whose need is greatest?This morning an actual petition was handed into No 10 by one sector among those that have suffered the worst in the great state shrinkage of th