Kirklees Cons Care Con

Wanting to be generous to the Kirklees Conservative Group I thought they may have written their resolution to council before we received the conditions from the Conservative Government connected to the "one-off" grant we were given for Social Care. The conditions are quite clear, the money has to be spent on Social Care for the elderly. So I asked if the wanted to withdraw it. The answer was no, the thought we should spend £6m delaying the cuts to the Library Service, (cuts forced on us by the cuts to government grant to Kirklees).

They wanted the council to say, that as we are using reserves (more one-off money) to pay for Social Care, therefor we could ignore the government directive and use the one off grant to delay Library Cuts. The grant would only delay the cuts because the money is not in the base budget (that is the money we know we are going to get each year - like your wage or pension), so when it runs out the cuts would have to be made anyway. It's like taking out a loan when you have no money to make the repayments.