Council spending priorities

How unfair were Burnley Council's area-focused spending decisions in the 1990s if "racists latched onto it and encouraged the resentment"?

Were Burnley's spending priorities unique? The Archbishop of York doesn't think so.

Some local politics has not been very good at actually supporting the indigenous population, that must be acknowledged.

If you go in some areas that I've worked in, it looks sometimes from the outside that what has actually gone on is migrants sometimes have appeared to be getting the things which the indigenous population is not getting.