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I hark back to local social media sites and there's plenty of hope that ousting (for example) Jo Platt from Leigh will be the start of turning things around, but many acknowledge the shambolic, corrupt, land-selling clowns of Wigan Labour council are a massive hurdle.
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I also dislike the Labour councils down in London for selling off land and housing to generate money from new developments, displacing long standing residents out of their communities.
However we do have to remember that the reason these councils are doing that is because they have had their budgets slashed and been forced to be 'income generating' due to cuts from central government.
It is a classic political trick from the Conservatives to starve Labour councils of funding to force them in to being the ones making cuts and undermining the image that Labour cares about ordinary people. I wonder if Wales will be the next target area for politically driven austerity which could strategically undermine Labour.
