{"id":40507,"date":"2019-03-07T14:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=40507"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:35:55","slug":"theyre-sitting-reserve-million-pounds-fighting-cardiff-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/theyre-sitting-reserve-million-pounds-fighting-cardiff-council","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re sitting on a reserve of a million pounds\u2019: fighting the Cardiff Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>As Cardiff Council cuts millions of pounds from education and mental health care budgets, the public protests and urges them to defy austerity.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40510\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40510\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Anonymous-Header-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40510\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Anonymous-Header-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> Cardiff Against the Cuts holds up a powerful message to the council against their budget cuts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cardiff council announced millions of pounds of cuts to the budget, and Cardiff Against the Cuts have protested against it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40509\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40509\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/BANNER-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40509\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/BANNER-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> The banner makes a striking statement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2019, the council announced its plans to slash the school budget by 3.5 million pounds, and almost 20 million pounds from service funding, resulting in a protest by members of the Socialist Party and Cardiff Against the Cuts on 28 February outside City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been having cuts for years, and now, there\u2019s nothing left to cut. It\u2019s a desperate situation, especially for education. Schools are expanding and being added around Cardiff, and yet the funding is being cut,\u201d says Geraldine Smith, one of the protesters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40514\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40514\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Protest-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40514\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Protest-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> The protesters shout powerful messages to nearby people walking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Around twenty people protested outside City Hall, bearing signboards that said \u201cSave our Schools, Stop Council Cuts\u201d, and handed out flyers. Members of the Socialist Party participated in the protest as well.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Saunders, the organizer of the protest, has held similar protests in the past few years, to fight for the same cause. \u201cMy daughters are in school. Cardiff council is sitting on a pile of reserve of 76 million pounds. They\u2019ve made a quarter of a billion pounds cuts in the last ten years, leading to the loss of over 2500 jobs. We\u2019re demanding that the Council should fight for the services that we all rely on and refuse to make more cuts,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40508\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40508\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Ross-625x351.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40508\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Ross-625x351.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> Ross Saunders is the organiser of the protest and member of the Socialist Party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The protesters were united in hope, with most of them expressing the wish for their protest to mobilize large support and convince the council to change their mind and come up with a campaign in order to prevent funding cuts. Several urged the council to \u201cdefy\u201d the order of the party and make efforts to save funds as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m part of the NHS, and I\u2019ve been part of the Socialist party for a long time. My dad was on benefits, so I know how hard it is to have the budget for services and mental health cut. I really do think Councillors should do more to fight the cuts, and austerity should be fought,\u201d says Beth Cameron, a nurse from the NHS.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40513\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40513\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/BETH-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40513\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/BETH-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> Beth, a nurse from the NHS, joined the protest because of her belief.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Cardiff Council cuts millions of pounds from education and mental health care budgets, the public protests to defy austerity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":40511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[34],"coauthors":[632],"class_list":["post-40507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice","tag-activism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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