MAGIC MONEY - TORY DEFICIT DENIAL
In their continual "Deficit Denial Mode" the conservative local election machine is going into overdrive to spend the Magic Beans to convince the electorate that cuts are not happening.
Robert Light has stated that the cuts to Kirklees are justified as the Labour Government gave Kirklees too much money and that all that is happening now is that the imbalance is being redressed and money is being transferred to rich areas, mostly down South.
What Robert is describing is method that was used for over 100 years (until Eric Pickles got his hands on the cash) to distribute government grants on a basis of need, based on such things as how many old people you looked after, how many unemployed people live in your area, how many miles of road you had etc. ect. .
Eric has abolished that system and now money is distributed on the basis of how rich you are, the richer you are, the more money you get (sound familiar).
Robert Light wants to impose that system on Kirklees, he wants to distribute local cash on a basis of where it is raised. Not an accident that Kirklees largest rate payers are in his ward, though everyone else will appreciate that they are serving the whole area, it is not only people from Birkenshaw that shop at Ikea. What he fails to tell conservatives in all other areas is how much they will loose, what he fails to tell people is how much will be taken from the Social Care of the most needy. What Mail and Telegraph readers always fail to understand, is that anyone can fall on hard times, or be hit by illness that they can not deal with themselves, that everyone is getting older.
Tory leaflets in Dewsbury and Huddersfield are not telling the electors there that he tried to divert millions away from them at budget time.
Always remember the Conservatives are there to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, something that they are very good at. Whereas Kirklees has lost £180m in grant, some richer authorities have actually gained. We may be all in it together, but some are much deeper than others.
