Wandsworth workers protest cuts are to go up by $3.50 per week.
Some councils have resorted to other methods of paying for the cuts. The London Borough of Lambeth has opted to prevent cuts by imposing rate increases.
Ted Knight, leader of Lambeth council, argues that the better-off business people will have to shoulder the increased burden of higher rates. As they own or live in bigger premises, they will be paying a higher rate. This is said to pass the buck back to the better off Advocates of this line of argument will also say that unless rates go up, local authorities will go bankThis would open the path to government commissioners being sent in to "sort out the situation"
What is actually being said to workers is "Hold on. It's going to be a bit tough right now, but just vote us in next time and something will get done.
Right now, many traditional manners Only by opposing all cuts - includ ing rate rises - can Labour defend working people protest if the problem can be solved locally by squeezing tenants and rate-payers?
The net result of Knight's policies are. in this sense, a disaster. He has suireeded in pitting the working