Members of the Socialist Party and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) were asked to leave the Hackney Council Chamber after protests erupted against the new revised budget.
Whilst Councillor Guy Nicholson, Cabinet Member for Planning, Business and Investment was making his case for cutting services, members in the public gallery’s shouted with fury at the cuts to be enforced in its new budget.
After several minutes of shouting from the protesters the speaker, called for them to be moved from the chamber, to which Cllr Simche Steinberger, the council’s Conservative Party leader, later remarked the protesters were prematurely removed.
Prior to the meeting, members of the TUSC and the Socialist Party rallied outside the borough’s town hall to distribute letters to Labour Party councillors to encourage the to meet with trade unionists and anti-austerity activists to ‘resists the continued Tory onslaught on local government.’
In his first budget speech as the Mayor of Hackney, Phillip Glanville, described it as “an extremely challenging financial environment.”
The Mayor discussed how year on year since 2011, the council’s grant from the government has been reduced and it is expected to fall to £171 million by 2019/20. This means it will be down by £139 million since 2010/11, which is a”a cut of 45%”.
The Mayor discussed how he was happy with the Cross-party support against the recent business rates increase.
There was a vote on the main budget report and the budget was agreed to by 45 votes against just four.
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Members of the Socialist Party and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) were asked to leave the Hackney Council Chamber after protests erupted against the new revised budget.
Whilst Councillor Guy Nicholson, Cabinet Member for Planning, Business and Investment was making his case for cutting services, members in the public gallery’s shouted with fury at the cuts to be enforced in its new budget.
After several minutes of shouting from the protesters the speaker, called for them to be moved from the chamber, to which Cllr Simche Steinberger, the council’s Conservative Party leader, later remarked the protesters were prematurely removed.
Prior to the meeting, members of the TUSC and the Socialist Party rallied outside the borough’s town hall to distribute letters to Labour Party councillors to encourage the to meet with trade unionists and anti-austerity activists to ‘resists the continued Tory onslaught on local government.’
In his first budget speech as the Mayor of Hackney, Phillip Glanville, described it as “an extremely challenging financial environment.”
The Mayor discussed how year on year since 2011, the council’s grant from the government has been reduced and it is expected to fall to £171 million by 2019/20. This means it will be down by £139 million since 2010/11, which is a”a cut of 45%”.
The Mayor discussed how he was happy with the Cross-party support against the recent business rates increase.
There was a vote on the main budget report and the budget was agreed to by 45 votes against just four.