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People of London: What can councils do better?
National World - LocalTV
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12/11/2024
We ask Londoners what they think local councils can improve on.
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Oh, a lot of things actually. More investment in the town centre, which is really run down
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and there's quite a bit of crime, so like community wardens, yeah.
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I mean, we do okay, actually. I think, I mean, last week they forgot to take one of our bins.
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We contacted them and they came back a couple of days later. I think we do okay. I mean,
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some councils are more broke than others and I think some people, some residents have more
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problems than others, but touch wood, we're doing all right, I think. Having said that,
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something terrible will happen tomorrow and I'll be cursing you on the way home.
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Councils have been stripped back financially for so long and everything, you know, the
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government have no problem saying we're going to give ourselves a 20% rise and the councillors
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say we don't mind giving ourselves a rise. But when it comes to looking after the people,
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I think that there's a lot of diversity between the two.
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