| Topic: | Re:Re:Any Labour voters happy with this council? | |
| Posted by: | Ed Yelland | |
| Date/Time: | 15/08/16 11:39:00 |
| "Labour are OK. Tories to blame for huge cuts to public spending" which conveniently overlooks three things: 1. Before the Tories kicked them out c12 years ago Ealing had become the second dirtiest borough in London and had also run up a £150m debt. The new council cleaned up the borough within 12 months at no extra cost. 2. The local Labour group are relying on the gullibility of local electors by choosing to make further cuts in social care even though they were allowed to raise council tax this year by up to 3% to increase spending. Most other Labour councils in London chose to do so, Ealing did not. So the latest cuts are solely down to the local Labour group playing gutter politics safe in the knowledge most of their core voters wills imply swallow the "Tory cuts" claim. 3. Our streets are filthy because street cleaning has been cut by 2/3 frequency and because new charges at local tips massively encourage fly tipping- by charging 10 x the normal cost to dispose of waste legally. Unless I've missed something at no point did our local Labour group ever mention street cleaning would be reduced when wheelie bins were introduced - so they either knew this and chose to say nothing or didn't know this in which case they are incompetent. |