Scandalous underfunding of Liverpool city council

We always knew that a further tory government would be a complete and utter disaster for the people of Liverpool, but what is happening right now is a scandal of truly epic proportions, just one of many at the hands of these incompetent "leaders".
Only a few months into Bozo's mortal reign our city is on the brink of total financial collapse on the tory watch once again.

Over the last 10 years Liverpool city council has seen an eye watering £436million cut from their budget - the highest of any council in the country. While many point to austerity as the reason for this, it is worth putting in perspective that during that same period many other southern cities saw a huge increase in their funding... while Liverpool residents saw a loss of £816 per day per person, Oxford had their allowance increased by £115 per day per person.

Then, in February 2020 our council was forced to accept a further £30m cut, and told to somehow find that money within its own means- citing local businesses and transport as sources of revenue, but as we're now fully aware, at that stage our government was knowingly under-preparing for the incoming pandemic which has seen the country's streets and car parks become ghost towns, and the residents packed into crowded hospitals that many will not come out of.

When the government announced its coronavirus spending plans in March, Sunak addressed the nation and assured every constituency that they would do "Whatever it takes" to ensure all of the inevitable losses due to mass closures would be covered, and additional funding available to all local councils across the UK to protect and ensure continuation of their food bank schemes, benefit schemes, essential healthcare systems, and school meal allocations that the councils distribute.
And yet when it came to Liverpool, the city received just £102m of the £240m that was promised by the conservatives in Westminster.
Less than half of their allocation, provided in two payments - the second payment being a further unexpected 32% reduction on the first (£59.6m & £42.9m).

The council's reserves today stand at just £17m. This relatively tiny amount does not come remotely close to the spending costs of a city. Not even nearly. And yet has to keep an already struggling city afloat and its people alive during the most unprecedented disaster of modern times.

There is a meeting scheduled for June in which Mayor Joe Anderson will look to implement a motion that sees every single bit of council spending come to a complete halt with the exception of only the most vital of services for vulnerable people, though during a pandemic of this scale even that will not come close to being covered.

My city and my home is almost certainly about to go completely bankrupt because of the deliberate underfunding actions taken by its own government during a desperate time of need, who then stand in front of the nations media and claim to be doing so much for their subjects, and achieving so very much.

We should all be more than aware of the already horrific failures regarding their actions around the COVID-19 pandemic, but this particular story highlights the continuous further discrimination put upon northern cities and completely quashes any suggestion of unity they so claim to establish.