| Topic: | Re:The real management story | |
| Posted by: | Bassam Mahfouz | |
| Date/Time: | 18/03/11 14:04:00 |
| Cllr Taylor, You had the chance to put forward your alternative budget at the start of the month... let us all know exactly where you would have made the savings to fund the items you stated you wouldn't cut. Unless I am suffering from a terrible case of amnesia, I seem to recall that despite your group being nearly five times the size of the Lib Dem group, you didn't put forward an alternative. That means that your shadow cabinet (which outnumbers the cabinet!) didn't have the time or the inclination to ask the officers for some help with basic sums on the things you claim to care about. At least the Lib Dems gave it a shot. Given it is your government that is imposing these massive cuts targeted specifically on local government I would have thought you had a moral duty to put forward your alternative. But you didn't. You bottled it. Over the past 10 months your group pledged to overturn £6.5m worth of savings. With no proposed or worked through alternative savings this can mean only one thing. Your alternative budget was an 8% increase in every single council tax bill across the borough. 8% in the first year of what could have been a Tory administration, heaven only knows what you'll propose next year! If you feel you have some worked through alternative savings then perhaps you should have spoken to your party leadership before the budget meeting... do you think they let you down by not agreeing your proposals? Perhaps they're not listening to you any more because they know you are a liability? I suppose there's only one way to fix it Phil and that's to stand and become Ealing Conservative Group Leader in May. Good luck with that! Happy to offer what help I can to your campaign. Best wishes, Cllr Mahfouz |