When it comes to metaphors to illustrate how local government finance is rapidly running out of road and time, one must confess exhaustion and then defeat.
There is always a bit more tarmac laid on, a hiking of council tax thresholds to cover social care funding, exceptional financial support or other such boondoggle. Anything, just anything so the can marked ‘council finance' might be booted a little further on, without addressing the fundamentals.
