When contrasted with this Parliamentary constituency map (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LondonParliamentaryConstituency2010Results.svg) one could argue that the cuts are more likely to be severe in Labour held areas where one can assume that the Conservatives are already unpopular.

Si, surely bigger councils have bigger budgets because they have more demands made of them. Their bigger budgets don’t equate to having spare money which can be cut without harm. For cuts to be fair they should be evenly spread across councils big and small.

Nice site btw, will be back.

While these borough councils were hardest hit by the cuts, they benefited most from the overspending that proceeded them.

The councils that have the smallest cuts have the least they can cut – Buckinghamshire’s tiny (one of the lowest in the country) funding cut is leading to a 90% reduction in spending on youth projects. The youth budget wouldn’t have been big, so in absolute terms that’s not a huge amount of money, but it’s a relatively huge cut, and about the only one they could still make (the transport budget has been tiny for ages) without bins not being emptied and libraries closing and such like.