Topic: | Re:Re:The Truth about the Conservative Position on Garden Waste | |
Posted by: | Bassam Mahfouz | |
Date/Time: | 03/11/11 11:19:00 |
Surprise, surprise, if it isn't the gruesome twosome, the rebels without a cause... Cllrs Taylor and Costello! Neither want to admit that whilst they have tried to lead their party to oppose the garden waste changes, their party leadership has shown time after time that when it comes to were it matters they have refused to actually attempt to overturn this decision. The writing is on the wall - the Tories are lying to the people of Ealing as to where they stand on this. They have not opposed it where it matters and now they are trying to hide behind the fig leaf of this petition. I would suggest that the two of you both plead innocence on the basis of ignorance... otherwise admit that you are lying to the people of this borough. But given you still won't admit it was an error to giveaway over £6m at a cost of around £1m just before the biggest cuts in the history of local government were about to hit us so I won't hold my breath. Mr Knox - the reality is that we are looking at a whole host of savings across every area of the council. We've saved £1m by simply bringing the Highways contracted team in-house, over £3m by retendering our Clean & Green and Parks maintenance contracts, I could go on, but yes, the figure had gone up to £85m. This was as we got more information from the government telling us that the cuts would be deeper and faster than first expected. I have listed the alternatives - it's up to the Tories to decide which one they actually support. |