| Topic: | Re:Re:Any Labour voters happy with this council? | |
| Posted by: | Noel Brotherton | |
| Date/Time: | 15/08/16 11:41:00 |
| You are joking of course (love a bit of humour on a Monday). Look at the audited accounts, Ealing's reserves have rarely been higher. It is not the lack of budget but how you spend it. A vanity car park in Southall (£2.5m), a hole in the ground in North Action (meant to be an 'interchange square c.£5m). 'Giving away' assets like Warren Farm and the Town Hall. You really could not make up the incompetence of Labour's financial management. Look at Wandsworth (where I work), lower charges (Council Tax just over half of that charged in Ealing) minimal cuts to services by resource sharing with Richmond (including cutting out whole rafts of duplicated middle management) and....weekly waste collection including free garden waste and clean streets. You cannot defend Ealing's record. PS Wandsworth haven't reduced their library service either (they considered it but did not go ahead). PPS They have not shut their respite care centres fro children either (unlike Ealing). |