WHITEHALL IS ficials, the men from the ministry have finally admitted they can't make ends meet.
redundancies and a big increase in rents, doesn't br2 million target.
With such conclusions before him, Tory minister Patrick Jenkin can't have looking forward to his Tuesday meeting with Liverpool. Perhaps that explains the smiles on the of Liverpool MPs and councillors at their press KULLCICICC mediately following, when spoke of a 'fruitful discussion'.
Fruitful or not, Jenkins has made no offer, and Liverpool's ruling ahead with Group its Will budgetmaking meeting for Wednesday 11 July.
manifesto commitment means spending £270 million on the ciplain terms: an illegal budget all astronomical 170 per cent crease i falco.
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STUMPED by Liverpool's Even cuts in services, together with voluntary ing Liverpool's projected rate increase below an •naccptable 37 per cent — and it could be as much as 70. And these Whitehall figures still mean spending £13 million more than Thatcher's the last bastion of private enterprise out in the open. crease, said Berry Marsh, Even a di chairperson Merseyside Chamber of Commerce, be disastrous. We recently made a calculation that on the basis of a 60 per cent rate rise, there would the potential loss of 13,000 JODS I le private sector.
Talks between Jenkin and city councillors not have broken down, but the results of the joint officers' report make Labour's position clearer than ever. There IS for negotiated compromise on Liverpool's budget. If the government won't conSend 1o: Socialist Action Suhs, 328 Upper St. London NI 2XP cede Liverpool's just case, the labour movement as a whole must force them to back down.
On 11 July, will — yet agair - presen ts original budget to th council meeting. This time, it will be backed by the Department vironment's own figures O LIC CLY. • discussed without The has without moying inca.
fightback Liverpool ComIng Saturday must be the first stage in a united lightback by all Labour councils facing the Tory axe in the months to come.
It must be tre stepping stone for a demand at the recall governmen (in Sheffield 5-7 July) ELIC movement joins behind all councils in a united and determined fight to keep public services and protect council jobs.
This fight demand:
that no council wavers.
the Labour Party leadership get or une rence an stand firmly on the side of Liverpool and all prepared to act now to stop the Tory slaughter.
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budget problem. After a month of meetings between city council and Department of the Environment of-
Liverpool THE
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