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MOTB: the ‘jaws of doom’ are closing on local government

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We have reached a point in local government where the funding system is “fundamentally wrong” and we are “running out of options”, panellists at

‘Half-baked’ plans to overhaul Scottish local government will lead to significant financial costs that have not been thought through and risk repeating the flawed process of local government reorganisation (LGR) in England, ministers have been warned.

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