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Birmingham council is being forced to flog £750m in real estate due to austerity (hexbear.net)
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and it's just now that I have connected the dots, the point of austerity is quite literally to trigger bankruptcy and then strip the state of valuable assets

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[–] THIRD_WORLDIST@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

council tax is also significantly increasing