After ten years of austerity it’s about time that local government are seen as the heroes that they are. I was pleased to celebrate them at this critical time at the Dispatch Box.
They have had to share a disproportionate burden of responsibility, for the cuts. We’ve asked them to do more and more for less money and that’s taken it’s toll on them. The next few weeks and months is going to be testing for all of us, and it will further test the resolve of those who work in local government on the front line of delivering public services.
It’s about time that we reward that with more than warm words, they are the glue that holds local communities together and much of their work goes unrecognised and unrewarded.
Jim McMahon OBE MP 