The government needs to ‘sling their hook’

Time and again, in a series of motions at local government conference this week, a common theme emerged: as Wendy Aitchison from Scotland put it, borrowing from that great Liverpudlian thinker, Lily Savage: “the government needs to ‘sling their hook’.”
Speaker and speaker told of the impact of a decade of funding cuts to local government.
Nicky from the Northern region said that there was a prospect of more than 30% more funding cuts to local government in the air.
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