Liverpool City Council against cuts

Liverpool City Council came together today, to discuss the issues that will now affect they city after the coalition government announced cuts.

Issues that arose where council tax, housing benefits, roads works and tuition fees as Joe Anderson, leader of Liverpool’s Labour Party, looked set to fight the cuts brought in by the new government.

With the new of the cuts having dramatic effect across the country, with cities such as London and Birmingham coming under attack from violent demonstrators, the council agreed that some of the cuts will have a knock on effect to the people of Liverpool; but look to fight it every step of the way.

As a whole, they agreed that the cut of the EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance) which was brought in by the Labour government, is a wrong decision stating that it ‘provided vital and financial support to students from low-income families’ and that it will ‘particularly hit Liverpool families and young people already reeling from the cutting from the Building schools for the future.’ These cuts will not only will these affect higher education, but education as a whole. Around twenty-six schools that has plans to be rebuild or have work done on them, will now be left unfinished, leaving some schools future looking bleak.

One main issue that has also effected the city of Liverpool is crime, and as a 28% cut has been made to the local authority funding, with the council very opposed after all the efforts Merseyside Police have made over the past few years, saying ‘Merseyside Police have helped make Liverpool a safer place.’

There will also be around 3500 job losses across Merseyside, and a further £300 million pound will be cut from regeneration sites in the poorest areas in Liverpool, including Kensington and Anfield.

The city of Liverpool has come a long way since the last time the Conservative were in power and you can be sure that Liverpool City Council will be doing everything it can to keep Liverpool’s regeneration going.