Well what do we do with this Lib Dem Council? They have seen the number of people employed by the Council rise by 22% in 4 years and add over £21m to the annual wage bill. We give them a method by which they could reduce staff by less than 1%, concentrating our reductions on bureaucrats, policy officers and Human Resource managers and they refuse it. Instead of our below inflation Council Tax increase they go for a whopping 5% rise, the highest in London.
We even gave them a method to remove the savage means tested scheme for personal care charges for the elderly and disabled and they refused it.
So much for their policy of free personal care when all they needed to do was make a small budget saving of £65k. It seems our Lib Dem MP and his Council are happy to go into this election with an attack on the elderly and disabled.
I met a lady at an Old Malden coffee morning last week who was a Lib Dem supporter but now feels at home with the Conservatives. How the political landscape in Kingston and Surbiton is changing.
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