Lib-Dem Priorities

Kirklees Lib-Dem Group confused!

At the Kirklees Council meeting of 15 January, the Lib-Dems took the option to debate a motion on Fracking over that of the LDF (Local Development Framework).

Despite issuing press releases about the importance of their proposal to Council on the LDF, the Lib-Dems combined with their coalition partners, the Conservatives, to stop the council debating the issue.

Cllr David Sheard, Deputy Leader, commented: "It is hard to understand the move Kath Pinnock, Lib-Dem leader, took to vote to continue the debate on Fracking, leading to the council running out of time to debate the LDF, an issue she and her group had so vehemently suggested was of great importance."

It was not clear whether Cllr Pinnock realised, as the potential debate approached, that she and her Lib-Dem colleagues had been complicit in agreeing the original LDF submission in the first place, as the reason for sticking with the debate on Fracking.