_ financial difficulty 'ust badly run -- shaun davies? . , . -- shaun davies?nd what this is a simple maths. you are seeing an increase in demand for services, the increased costs of providing those services, at the same time the costs and income is going down. you are seeing councils using reserves, reserves can only be used once, council tax being doubled over the last ten years but we fundamentally come back to the point there is less money going from whitehall to the town hall, so taxpayers are paying more locally and getting less local services back. do you accept that, jason cummings, thatis do you accept that, jason cummings, that is to do with the cuts from central government to local government? hate central government to local government?— central government to local covernment? ., ., ,, , government? we have two issues, you mentioned the — government? we have two issues, you mentioned the wider _ government? we have two issues, you mentioned the wider sector _ government? we have two issues, you mentioned the wider sector issues i mentioned the wider