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News and Comment February 2025

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5 February (Part 2) - Lowest spending borough in London

Per capita expenditureAlways quick to jump on Bexleyְ’s financial predicaments, @tonyofsidcup was keen to tell me what David Brown was getting for his whopping £3,000 of Council Tax.

Err; not nearly as much as if he moved to Wapping. (Tower Hamlets.)

The lesson is clear, let your borough degenerate into a dump and the Government will bail you out.

Same as in one’s personal life, become too anxious to get out of bed and the Government will bail you out.

Maybe this is another example of it not being entirely bad that Bexley is bottom of the list.

For pedants it should be noted that expenditure on schools is a big influence on the numbers and with so many of them in Bexley being Academies where the Government foots the bill directly a schools excluded table would put Bexley 5th from the bottom.

Highest taxes; lowest payouts per head of population.

Maybe David will write another letter to the Telegraph?

@tony queried some of the figures with the Cabinet Member for Resources but he hasn’t had a reply; well it’s only a week.

 

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