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Christchurch Central’s Labour MP has accused city leaders of supporting a “1980s-style austerity” budget that will cost thousands of jobs and damage the city for years to come.
Duncan Webb blasted Christchurch City Council on Tuesday for proposing to cut its capital programme by $168 million, and increase rates by just 3.5 per cent instead of the 4.65 per cent, proposed before the Covid-19 crisis.
“This city is in a position to borrow money and to spend money in a way that no other organisation at a local level can and that is what we should be doing now, not 1980s-style austerity which will damage families, people and jobs and the city for years to come.”
He said rates increases caused hardship for some, but not all.
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