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One by one, England’s councils are going bankrupt – and nobody in Westminster wants to talk about it | John Harris

The Guardian

The government is reportedly in the mood for pre-election tax cuts; the opposition talks of iron fiscal discipline. And all around us, a familiar disaster grinds on: constant increases in demand on our most crucial public services, which the financially blitzed councils charged with providing them simply cannot meet.