The Guardian view on council spending: a crisis unfolding | Editorial

Eight years of savage cuts are driving local government and the services it provides to the brink of viability. Crisis management is no answer to this looming catastropheMore than it ought to be, council finance is a niche interest. But to those who take an interest, it was only a matter of time before eight years of spending cuts drove a council somewhere in England into the wall. That unwanted accolade has now been won by Northamptonshire county council, which revealed on Friday that it had ru