The Labour Group meeting this afternoon was a livelier affair than I expected if for no other reason than that I woke up to the reality of what Cllr Maclaren is allowing her colleagues to do to her budget. £18 million of cuts in Children & Families budget and a whopping 2% cut in school budgets...unbelieveable! Doesn't she know her job is to defend her service? Doesn't she understand what happens when State schools start cutting back on school budgets? Doesn't she care that all it does is drive more folk away into the private sector? Does it bother her?
Stating the obvious: what do Maginnis, Williamson, Aitken and Burns all have in common? They presided over Council budgets where Labour always prioritised school budgets, children and the future human capital of our city. By common agreement other services always took a bigger share of cuts to protect Education. Maclaren and poodle Beckett are badly letting the city's children down. What legacy theirs?
Mark my words...within 2 years there will be a significant downturn in performance, especially for students in the poorest areas...every measure of early intervention is systematically being stripped out - which just goes to show what really happens when people choose individualists and Tartan Tories to govern them...
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