CONSERVATIVE FAIRY DUST & MAGIC BEANS
The conservatives seem locally to be developing a strange
policy based on Fairy Dust and Magic Beans. The government cut £165m (so far)
from our budget at a time when the demand for social care is increasing. The
only way that the council can increase its income is through development, yet
the Conservatives, oppose every development then whinge that they are not allowed to spend the New Homes Bonus created as a result of the development they voted against. Instead they
oppose every cut the council makes and claim they are as a result of councils
actions, rather than the chancellor looking to make money to pay for his bribes
to the well off, and make the super rich even richer.
They seem to apply the same strategy to the NHS. Whilst
their government is not funding the increase in demand, and insisting on
deficit reduction for Health Trusts, the local conservatives claim that
everything we want can be funded. It can be funded, but not with fairy dust and
magic beans, but by Osborne putting his hand his pocket.
I am sorry, as everyone is (Conservatives excepted) that
the council is shrinking and that many of the services we have been rightly
proud of are being taken away. But if the choice is helping one of our
elder neighbours to live a full and safe life as long as possible in their own
home, as opposed to providing a free rubbish collection to many who can afford
it, then I will choose social care every time.
