Scrap the budget cuts

We the undersigned call to scrap Bristol City Council’s proposed budget cuts.

Bristol City Council’s proposed budget cuts include more than £11 million cuts to adult social care[1]. The council explain that the cuts are necessary to meet an overall budgetary shortfall of £19.5 million.

In an online announcement on 3rd December the Labour council provides no opposition to the budget cuts. Instead, the cuts are described as ways of ‘working more efficiently’, ‘making besat use’ of property, ‘removing unnecessary duplication, and getting best value from our…