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Government childcare announcement: More Conservative chaos hurting families
The case for a radical, liberal left
Blue light bill bombshell as emergency services face £144m fuel and insurance costs
‘Tis the day after Cabinet, not a creature is stiring, not even a mouse
by Ian Shires on 30 October, 2014
‘twas the night before Cabinet, when all through the Council House not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Hush can you hear it? The silence? It’s almost deafening it’s so quiet!
Walsall’s new Labour bosses have put forward a whole raft of cuts adding up £29 million in the coming council year with a further £57 million to follow over the next 3 years. You’d never know it judging by the response in the press and on social media.
You’d never know Labour were planning to close 12 Children’s Centres, close 8 Libraries go to a fortnightly collection of Household Waste and charge for collecting Green Waste whilst at the same time restricting the opening hours of Walsall’s two Household Waste Recycling Centres.
And it doesn’t stop there! Labour bosses are planning to decimate youth services and cut grants to the voluntary sector. Cut back on street cleaning and drain maintenance as well as repairing potholes. Labour’s draft budget sees cutbacks in looking after our woodland and green spaces along with getting rid of Environmental and Community Safety posts.
When the previous Coalition administration on Walsall Council announced its budget proposals it was accompanied by a cacophony sound from Labour bloggers on social media. Where are they now?
’tis the day after Cabinet, not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse. Hush can you hear it? The silence? It’s almost deafening it’s so quiet!
7 Comments
No change there then!!!
Almost certainly because people are amazed that the coalition of “Plan A” really have spent all of the money, really did not have a medium term financial plan, really did hobnob at No 10 and did not tell Cameron about Walsall, and have been supported by a pipsqueak caravan of bobble tails hungry for ‘power’. With power comes responsibility – some thing which had been breathtakingly lacking locally.
You really don’t know me at all do you and you have no concept of what a councillor’s role is do you if you think that we “hobnob with No 10”
It must have been a different Mike Bird who attended a reception at No 10 and not the one who headed the cabinet of which you were part.Sorry for the confusion but the photo’s do look like humans I did think that it was you who was part of the same cabinet. Obviously not. Someone is masquerading as either him or you.
Mike Bird was representing the Tories at the event you were referring to not the Lib Dems. Like I said you obviously don’t know me when you refer to hobnobbing. Number 10? Never been near the place!
Fair play to Ian Shires local bloke looking after local issues and has done for many years i all ways vote for the person in local elections i would not vote for lib dem in national unless perhaps ian shires stood at least you know he really cares about willenhall like with the free parking in willenhall. MPs should be local people not like this conservative guy all over my face book patronising me in his pink bloody trousers like he is wandering around surrey when he is in bloco just shows how out of touch these idiots are. Fair play to Shires local bloke keeping it real.
Thanks for that. Much appreciated.