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SALFORD TO SEE NO CUTS BUDGET THIS YEAR BUT £21MILLION SHORTFALL OVER NEXT THREE YEARS
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Star date: 3rd February 2021 NO CUTS THIS YEAR BUT COUNCIL BRACED FOR £21MILLION SHORTFALL Salford City Council is to announce a no cuts budget this year, apart from what has already been announced, but the following two years will see a shortfall of over £21.8million – and that is after £40million projected savings for the three year period have been achieved. The Council blames 'the impact of COVID-19 upon council tax and business rates income'. Meanwhile Council Tax is set to increase by 4.99%, although no final figure has been disclosed. Salford Council passed a motion at its last meeting calling on the Government to increase funding 'to mitigate the impact on local council tax payers'.
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A Salford Council report, to be aired today at its Overview and Scrutiny Board, lays out the financial chaos that lies ahead over the next three years, mainly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Projections to mitigate some of the funding gap over the next three years have already been tabled, with a mix of reserves, returned business rates from GMCA and an 'Integrated Fund saving' relieving over £40million of savings. But even after these have been achieved, the Council reckons on 'savings shortfalls' – ie cuts – of nil in the financial year 2021/22, £10.546million in 2022/23 and £11.279million in 2023/24. These projections, which will be subject to change, have taken account of the Government's extra COVID funding. The main cause of the huge deficits, the Council states, is the loss of Council Tax and business rates revenue during the crisis...with more residents accessing the council tax reduction scheme and a reduction in collections. Deficits in these funds amount to over £28million, and the Council reckons it will lose Council Tax income from 1,836 band D properties. Council Tax may still also rise by 4.99%, although no final figure has yet been disclosed. At the last full meeting of Salford Council, a motion put forward by Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett, was passed calling on the Government to increase funding 'to mitigate the impact on local council tax payers'. "The future is very, very serious for the local authority" said Councillor Bill Hinds, Lead Member for Finance and Support Services, at that meeting "...The Government needs to come up to the plate to help local government, and Salford in particular..."
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Joe Muggins wrote
at 11:19:25 on 10 February 2021 |
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| @arnold rimmer So what you are saying is that if the council collected the full amount of council tax from every council taxpayer, like our house, then there would be more money for social care and other departments, that is basically what I am saying. |
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paul kelly wrote
at 23:47:09 on 09 February 2021 |
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| Bob read the post again i never wrote the word forced or forcefully do not try the old lib/Dem trick of bullshitting and making things up.what i suggest is this country needs to introduce a progressive tax system starting off by closing so called loopholes tax avoidance schemes off shore banking etc and then making the people with wealth pay a fair share at national and local level a farer tax system would easily fund a fully functioning welfare state and public services end food bank uk and help people lead a life of dignity and respect the money made from the British people should be used here not salted away to tax havens all the patriots who wrap themselves in the flag but threaten to walk away from the country that they love so much if tax rises are implemented should do just that walk away the sir Philip Greens and Richard Branson and the other so called creators of wealth do not create a penny the workers create the wealth for them and they are nothing but Ponces living off others labour good riddance to them and that also goes for shareholders landlords investors and other associated parasites away with you the cemeteries are full of indispensable people.We have a choice to make we can bury our heads in the sand carry on with the ever growing gap between rich and poor and all the social unrest and destruction of peoples lives it will cause and lead to the further disintegration of society or alternatively we can share the wealth created by all for the benefit of all. |
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bob wrote
at 15:15:01 on 09 February 2021 |
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| Why does Paul want to forcefully take money from the rich, when so many of them go out of their way to pay as much tax as they possibly can. Look at Fred Done and his brother. These 2 generous Salford lads are listed as being the 3rd and 4th biggest tax payers in the country,paying an astonishing £191 million quid each last year. They could cut that in half if they lived in the isle of Man,which is half an hour on the plane, and they would still be allowed 90 days a year here, plus as many one day trips as they wanted to watch united,as they don't count.I reckon that sort of cash easily pays for all the dole money in the whole of Salford. Tell you what,if I had their cash, I wouldn't live in Salford. |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 15:06:57 on 09 February 2021 |
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| @Joe Muggins/Felsey.
The entire council tax income doesn't even cover the cost of social care in the city so I'm not sure what else you're expecting. It works out at about 10-15% of the council's income.
Most council income comes from central government.
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Bob wrote
at 12:32:11 on 09 February 2021 |
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| Come on Ray, you have still not told us if this £21 million you're on about includes the £6.5 million for the cop shop case, plus its legal bills. In fact you have not mentioned the cop shop case at all. Should the councilors who did all this be surcharged for it or not? Should we have a public inquiry into whats gone on here? Yes or no.Why do you not face the music with this one now?Just think, knowing how forgetful the Salford electorate are, if it all comes out now,the public will most likely have forgot about it come the elections in May. Come on Ray,tell us the truth. |
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paul kelly wrote
at 12:19:21 on 09 February 2021 |
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| A one off levy is not enough it should be permanent take the money off the ones who have money to give to the people who have not socialism. |
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Joe Muggins wrote
at 09:37:17 on 09 February 2021 |
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| Ray of Sunshine or the Man with Blinkers, what council tax bands would you levy to get the £21 million.
How about the council starting to earn the council tax that they are receiving from the ratepayers.
How much council tax is overdue.not only from last year but previous years?
What are our illustrious council doing to improve the council tax receipts?
What are the council tax payers getting for their money, no street cleaning, no gulley emptying, drains blocked, pavements in bad condition, roads in a mess, volunteers tending to bowling greens, contacting the council made difficult, council not transparent.
Labour run for as long as I can remember, nothing changes. |
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Felsey wrote
at 08:54:08 on 09 February 2021 |
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| Ray is wrong to not blame Labour. They should have pushed up inward investment each year for the last 10 years at £3million a year. Cumulatively giving a profit above the shortfall. There is still time to clear the massive bill. Selling the Civic Centre to Beijing for them to set up a Western G5 HQ would clear the debt along with creating hundreds of technology jobs in Salford. We now no longer need the Civic Centre with home working having become the norm. Inward investment is what Salford needs. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 22:13:31 on 08 February 2021 |
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| More baloney from phoney-croney Felse. Salford faces a defecit of £21 Million because of deliberate
underfunding by the Tories!
One way out would be a one-off levy of top band Council Tax Payers-come on Mayor Dennet let's have some Socialism! |
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wrote
at 12:09:43 on 08 February 2021 |
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| why is truth hurt like an ostrich because he likes to bury is ignorant head in the ground. |
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the truth hurts wrote
at 09:00:26 on 08 February 2021 |
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| @PaulKelly ... I only read the first couple of lines of your latest rant.... In recent years I have voted for both Labour and Tory. I'm what you call a classic middle ground floating voter and can see the good and bad in both sides. The thing that disappoints me most about the labour party at the moment is the immediate reversion to name calling of anyone who doesn't agree with your point of view. It might get you a like or two from your immediate circle of friends but a huge number of people find it very off putting. It was a tactic used by Trump to win the presidency, and one that he used to deflect criticism. And this trump tactic is being used by you and the rest of the very left wing element of the current labour party... mines, scargill, nhs, maggie, class war blah blah blah |
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paul kelly wrote
at 00:34:29 on 08 February 2021 |
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| Hit a nerve truth hurts are you a tory pig bit close to home is it what i have wrote the trump analogy is ridiculous and i could not give a damn or care what you think i am not in a popularity competition Tories are vermin and Tory policies over the last 40 years have caused massive division in this country i will tell you what is extreme destroying the welfare state destroying the NHS wrecking communities destroying mental health services creating a massive homeless problem deliberately impoverishing poor people and the working poor relying on food banks to survive starving children and feathering the nests of your Tory mates the sleaze of and the hypocracy is well documented now truth hurts i will make you an offer at my expense i will take you or any other Tory to the former coalfields and the de industrialised areas of the UK i can set up a meeting and you can tell the people whos lives you wrecked on the alter of greed the truth i think first stop Easington colliery then a trip to south Wales i can arrange for you to meet some former miners from the justice for miners campaign i will show you parts of the UK where the truth grows on trees on another point of extremism a few weeks ago a person i knew killed themselves a man with mental health issues his money had been stopped by the DWP that is extreme, Rossi made the point about the bedroom tax payment and the word to remember is discretionary Rossi says he claimed and got it i know he has the strength and tenacity to do this however many people do not and once again the discretionary payment can be given if money is available only a certain amount is allocated to each local; authority and when it is claimed that is it some people lose out and i know many who have and some have ended up on the streets through eviction for non payment or have ended up in massive arrears it should be scrapped not accepted it was a disgusting policy designed to punish and steal benefits of the most vulnerable.Bob it is not about making the rich less well off than the poor it is about the rich paying a fairer share so the poor are not poor that is a balance we know the nonsense that the wealthy come out with about spreading the wealth these greedy pigs have accrued off others work you know it would not work well what did mandy rice Davies say well they would sat that wouldent they we live in a money society we need money to live at the moment people are under threat of losing a measly 20 pound per week universal credit money which if reduced will cause a massive increase in poverty and food bank use it should be increased never mind reduced benefits have been eroded for years by Tory cuts this has caused poverty and want if we want deprivation and poverty to end we need more sick pay better pensions and well paid jobs and i will just say i hate Tories and what they stand for and i have good reason to and i will say that my dying day. |
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at 20:13:17 on 07 February 2021 |
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| I think I know which nasty job club worker Rossi is talking about. A big fat piece who stinks of b o. A real wrong un. She has no right to look down on people and treat them bad. |
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The Truth Hurts wrote
at 16:18:37 on 07 February 2021 |
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| @PaulKelly --your comments below remind me of Trump. if you don't agree with someone elses opinion or view point then call them names. Its a trait of the extremist right, and the extremist left - and a reason why people shun them. I thought you would be better than that. You sound like the Trump of the left. |
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Rossi wrote
at 13:35:46 on 07 February 2021 |
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| Paul Kelly, people often don't have to pay the bedroom tax. They just have to apply for a Discretionary Housing Payment. That covers it. When I lived in a two bedroomed flat I applied three times and got it on those occasions. Then I moved into a one bedroom. A friend of mine has had the DHP on about eight occasions. Although I agree with you, in that the bedroom tax was a particularly nasty way for the Conservative wankers to punish the poor. As was making people on benefit pay Council Tax. And outsourcing to Atos, Maximus and capita the ESA and PIP medicals, whereby it's all rigged to strip people of their benefits ... And the creation of Universal Credit by Ian Duncan Smith and his cohorts. These people truly are scum. With the original Universal Credit phone line that cost about 20 pence per minute, and you were on for an hour before talking to someone, and then you got cut off; and also the Sanctioning regime, which some little Hitler's in the Jobcentre really loved doling out. Before Covid I'd go there and one dwp advisor in particular was a real twat. She'd ask if you'd brought "evidence" of your job search, as if she was a Magistrate back in the days of Jean Val Jean, and you were a "suspect" having to prove yourself innocent. Some of those people were truly awful. Thankfully they were a minority, at least in my opinion. What amazes me is how come Covid, the Government can furlough workers on 80 to 90 percent of their salaries indefinitely. It makes you wonder what all this bollocks of austerity was really about? For my opinion it was pure Tory ideology of buggering the poor and the low paid, and then making them pay for the buggering. |
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bob wrote
at 12:46:32 on 07 February 2021 |
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| Paul does not get the concept that you cannot make a poor man better off by screwing the rich, and at the same time,a rich man better off by screwing the poor. You need a balance in society where all people work together smoothly to make things work, like in places like Germany. Here we get screwed by rich companies because the left have mad ideas, and will never get elected into government. The Lib dems would have been a good alternative in Salford,especially under Old Stormin,but like Paul rightly says,they got into bed with the Torys. There is nothing wrong with some rich people. Look at Elon Musk steering us all into electric cars. If government owned British Leyland had been doing that, we would be driving cars like milk floats with lead acid batteries.Bill gates with computers.Paul went on about the Karl Marx flats in vienna built by the communist council.Well ,if you're into cheap social housing, look at the Fuggerei in Augsberg Germany. Much better social housing built over 500 years ago by a german industrialiist, and still standing because its so well built, not like the crap built by Labour. This is the best social housing in the world. You have to pay 6.50 euros just to look at it, much more than the rent the tennants pay each year which is 88 euro cents, (about 70 pence) lets build a Fuggerei apartment complex on the Clari site. Much better than labour Fuckery. Put me down for one,I'd like to live there. |
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Felsey wrote
at 11:23:31 on 07 February 2021 |
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| Why is Salford suffering a massive cash shortfall. Where are the answers, solutions or strategic actions. I do pay council tax every month but wonder what are they doing with my money. Who will take responsibility. Must I await for excuses. |
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Joe Muggins wrote
at 09:51:26 on 07 February 2021 |
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| Bob wrote,I don’t live in cloud cuckoo land unlike some of our councillors, the comment was tongue in cheek, if the council officials and councillors did their jobs correctly there would be no need to tax certain people in certain council tax bands more as there would be no need for the council to get involved with expensive court cases.
If the council made a better effort to collect what is due to them each year in council tax, the shortfall would be much less than it is. |
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paul kelly wrote
at 22:00:07 on 06 February 2021 |
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| How about creating a new council tax band in all the Tory wards and areas where if only 2 Tory pigs live in an abode with more than 4 rooms they have to pay treble council tax for the spare rooms they do not need a mansion tax along the lines of the bedroom tax which they thought was a wonderful idea which along with there liberal demorat mates and remember this when the libdems come looking for your vote along with the tuition fees and all the dirty deals done with dodgy Dave under austerity and the callous measures they introduced to make poor people poorer and have caused absolute misery and hardship for many leading to the growth of food bank UK. The money raised from the greedy Tory vermin tax band z for living in a house to big for them could be used to pay the bedroom tax which poorer people are being forced to pay at the expense of putting food on the table course they can move if they wish of course this may split up families but they did not give a fig about poorer families being split up so its not a problem perhaps the money could also be used to give to families so they can afford to heat there homes and feed the kids. |
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bob wrote
at 18:55:22 on 06 February 2021 |
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| Joe muggins must be living in cuckoo land if he thinks we are NOT paying the councils legal bills, Of course we are paying,we are the fools who have to pay.These Qc lawyers get £20 -£30 grand plus just for looking at a case. Then its £750 to £1000 per hour. Normally ,what happens is that the QC's on each side tell their clients they are going to win,and the other side is going to pay the bill at the end of the day. That normally gets the cash rolling. The ideal clients these QC types like,are ones that are a bit thick,who have plenty of cash,and have done something that they dont want people to find out about. People like footballers, or better still, our Councillors, who are most likely the best they can get, because its not their own cash they are handing over.Try as they might to avert it, this cop shop case is going to hit our council right up the arse at the wrong time.There is talk of something else on its way. What this is,I don't know, but it cannot get any worse for clown hall,or can it? |
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Joe Muggins wrote
at 15:09:43 on 06 February 2021 |
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| Ray of Sunshine what about the council making an effort to ensure that all council tax payers pay what is due.
You will be asking the council tax payers to fund the councils court costs next. |
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bob wrote
at 12:56:39 on 06 February 2021 |
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| Rays hypothetical idea for banging an extra tax on the highest band council tax payers sounds great to me, but I can think of an even better idea. Why dont Dennet and Merry go round and thump Tyson Fury on the nose if they want to pick a fight with someone? Does Ray actually know where these highest rate homes are? I guess they are in Worsley and higher Kersal. Many of the people who live in them are high up in the legal world and would put up a hell of a fight. Even if the council were in a position to do this which they are not, it would force busy well off people,with better things to do, to turn their attention to be enemies of the council. The more enemies our council has,the better. No, all Ray is trying to do here,in his own misguided way, is to try and stir a little bit of class hatred. This £21 million deficit. Does it include the £10 million for the Cop Shop legal case, or has that got to go on top of this? Ray still has not answered my points on this case, now that the councils own "brief" has got her knickers in a twist,and while boasting about how smart she is has dropped the council in it by revealing the full cost of the case. Come on Ray,tell us your thoughts, tell us what you think about that case and miss smarty pants revelation to us all. Just thought about it, why dont we surcharge all the councilors who exceeded their powers and got us into this cop shop mess? Just like the Torys did to the Clay cross councilors? The ones who did this, actually do have pots to piss in, in fact they have substantial assets. This whole case is being kept under wraps just to protect them,and its not working. Ray wont answer to this one,he knows he's knackered,just like Labour in Salford. |
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the truth hurts wrote
at 08:18:00 on 06 February 2021 |
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| Ray -- hows about a cut in the number of councillors -- do we really need 60 odd buffoons in a room, rubber stamping whatever the labour whips put in front of them. Hows about cutting the funding for councillors vanity projects? There is a lot of waste at the Civic Hall, start cutting there before elsewhere. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 21:22:20 on 05 February 2021 |
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| What about a special, one-off levy on the top Council Tax Band Payers to clear the £21 Million defecit? After Covid, cuts to services shouldn't be tolerated! |
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at 15:59:44 on 04 February 2021 |
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| I think your problem getting comments posted recently Felsey is that people cannot stand you and all your self publicising, "tutor of the year" ing and "When I am Mayor" ing.
You may surprise us and actually run for Mayor this time round. I URGE you not to and DEMAND you stop posting on here. In return I will not run for Mayor this time round. |
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at 13:53:13 on 04 February 2021 |
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| Council tax will rise same every year blame everyone else but them and always above inflation rise I wonder what hidden rise will be |
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Felsey wrote
at 13:20:27 on 04 February 2021 |
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| Bob please tell me your secret about getting comments posted. I am not being as lucky with the columns ditching my ideas without a courteous public airing. |
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bob wrote
at 22:53:15 on 03 February 2021 |
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| I wonder if the man in the blue shirt is gesticulating at the man in the top picture or the man in the bottom picture, or indeed both of them. |
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