ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月21日 04時38分

@laetitiavancon photographed people waiting for a bus in Roade, a medieval village in the British county of Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire has become a warning sign of the perilous state of Britain’s local governments. The Conservative-led local government here has a budget deficit so big that councilors are stripping away all but the minimum services required by law. The county council voted in February to shut 21 of its 36 libraries, end subsidies for bus services and suspend road repairs. Officials are even considering cutbacks in mandated services for vulnerable adults and children. A Conservative Party bastion, Northamptonshire is leafy and affluent, littered with aristocratic estates — yet in February its local authority became the first in 2 decades to effectively run out of money. Britain is already in upheaval over #Brexit. But Northamptonshire is foreshadowing another potential fiscal crisis: Local governments drained of resources. The crisis is complicated and partly self-inflicted. But it has roots in the austerity policies and cost cutting that the Conservative-led national government imposed a decade ago. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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