The Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet Member for Customers and Communities at Northamptonshire County Council, Cllr Dennis Meredith, has called on Conservative backbenchers to come clean on their Council voting records in a letter published in the local press.
The text follows:
“Sir,
Recent spending by Conservative County Councillors through the “Empowering Councillors” scheme makes interesting reading. Amongst various projects, several councillors are funding School Crossing Patrols and Libraries. Why so interesting?
Well the very same School Crossing Patrols were axed by the votes of the very same Conservative Councillors in February. As for Libraries, the temporary u-turn performed by the Conservative administration hides neither the original intent to axe Libraries, nor the current review which seeks to make eye-watering cuts. Again, the Conservative Councillors now doling out grants are the very same people who wanted to take the money away!
Is it hypocrisy? Or is it a quiet rebellion? If it is the latter then it would have been better not to use their votes to slash frontline services in the first place? Or perhaps the Conservatives feel that only certain areas should have School Crossing Patrols and Libraries and that other places are less deserving.
The Conservatives at County Hall should come clean – do they support what they vote for in Council? Or are they trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the hard pressed taxpayers of Northamptonshire?
Cllr Dennis Meredith
Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet Member for Customers and Communities
Thorplands Division”
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