Chameleon Magazine

 🧾💸🏚️Falkirk’s looking at a financial sinkhole the size of a small country’s GDP—£64 million in the red—and yet, somehow, the priority list still reads like a UN wishlist. Among the “untouchables”? A migrant charity program with a price tag that could fund libraries, bin collections, or maybe even pothole repairs not done with chewing gum and hope.

🧨 Charity Begins at Home—Unless You’re in Local Government

You couldn’t script it better: local services gasping for air, council workers bracing for cuts, and the public being told to brace for council tax hikes… all while the architects of the disaster sip taxpayer-funded lattes in climate-controlled offices. ☕💼

But don’t worry! They’re feeling things deeply. Just not enough to freeze their own salaries or cancel any executive away days.

Now, let’s be clear: compassion is good. Charity is noble. But it shouldn’t be used as a moral fig leaf to cover up fiscal arson. You can’t set the house on fire and then brag about how warm you’ve made it for your guests.

This isn’t anti-migrant. It’s anti-stupidity. When you’re hemorrhaging millions, and your first instinct is to protect the PR-friendly programs while gutting services for the very people who pay for them, you’re not leading—you’re performing. Badly. On borrowed money.

🔥 Challenges 🔥

Should Falkirk families face higher taxes and closed community centres so council brass can play virtue bingo? Or should the town fix its finances before posing for the next humanitarian press release? Let’s hear what you would slash, save, or scream about. 💬🧨

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