South Lanarkshire's Liberal Democrat group criticise government over council spending cuts

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South Lanarkshire Liberal Democrats are calling out government cuts to local councils.The cuts to council budgets were announced by the Scottish Government in its spending review and have been condemned strongly by the local Liberal Democrats.Leader of the South Lanarkshire Council’s Liberal Democrat group, Councillor Robert Brown, said local people will be significantly impacted as well as services which could be reduced.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android He told Lanarkshire Live : “The SNP are wasting no less than £20 million on an irrelevant independence referendum which everyone knows is not going to happen any time soon. "The Finance Secretary Kate Forbes claimed in effect that this was a drop in the ocean compared to the size of the Scottish budget."Well, it may be a drop in the ocean to the SNP – but to most people it is a significant amount of money that should be spent on schools, town centres or local services.“Under the SNP, huge amounts of money have been spent on other failed projects like the ferries, while the Scottish economy has been outpaced by the rest of the UK, meaning there’s less money to spend."Now they want to spend more millions of pounds stripping powers from local communities to create an expensive and bureaucratic centralised National Care Service.“The effect of the