[Margaret Pilkington]

All this began before the current government came in.
The cuts you cite as being responsible were as a result of Labour governments poor budgetary controls.
The cuts were required because labour governments had spent up.
You can only have what you are prepared to pay for...So it was a choice of push up the taxes or spend less.

Now if large multinationals were brought into line regarding their taxes(all legal you understand) then there would be plenty of money to fund the services that we would all like to see.

Successive governments have known about the taxation inequalities....the loopholes.
All of them had the chance to do something about the big businesses being given leeway by HMRC....but none have acted to deal with this issue.