Spending Cuts - Resilience

[Marmora Man]

The BBC is flagging its research into the impact of public sector spending cuts. The story is on their Website - Here.

Surprisingly, Southwark is reported as being fairly well placed with the overall ranking being 97 / 324 - certainly well above the median mark and on some measures way ahead of the pack on things such as vulnerable jobs (8/324), insolvencies (174/324), no of startups (14/324), house prices (19/324) and so on. Vulnerabilities include - "low social cohesion (322 / 324), high benefits claim rate (277/324)

Do you agree?

Edited to include more data

[????]

I think it's intersting and does reflect some unique social change in the borough - for instance Lambeth and Lewisham (both next door) fair much worse. The Social change is that an area - the whole Southbank,Bermondsey Street and surround and borough - that were basically empty, abandoned wharfs 20-30 years ago is now chocker with very expensive flats/conversions and shops and restaurants and businesses. This regeneration has been unique to Southwark (in the south) as Lewisham has less nice riverside wharfs and Lambeth's Riverside is less extensive and mainly road. The south of Southwark has always been reasonably rich but the gentrificatin of SE22 for instance has also helped these figures, but they are after all just averages, the central bit of Southwark has some of the worse poverty in the country.

[Brendan]

That was my first impression too Quids. Southwark comes out well only because the figures are an average. Perhaps like a microcosm of the country there is a massive gap between very wealthy and very poor with very little in between. So areas like the Village, some parts of Camberwell trendy bits of the Borough and Bermondsey and bits of ED bump the figures up.

The reality though is that the vast population vulnerable to spending cuts in Southwark are going to get trampled on and have opportunity taken away from them just as viciously as the conservatives are Jonesing for.

[Ridgley]

Yep you are right, yes we understand cuts have to be made but remember this is the Tories this is what they do all the time when in power what happen to the speech David Cameron made that the venerable and the poor will have help that is a fat lie they are thinking of cutting winter fuel and child benefits and other benefits that will hit the most poor any cuts this Tory government make always effect the most worst off. Lets be perfectly honest the handbag Lib/Dem because that is what they are the Tories handbag and public executioner will pretend to disagree but nod there heads like the Church hill dog.

At the moment the cuts have not hit people were it hurts as yet and as a country once again we are a bunch of noddy?s we nodd to everything to the heirs of Thatcher :X

[Medley]

I found this really interesting. It very largely confirms my existing view of places - but perhaps that' just me finding what I seek.