| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:The 2018 Conservative Manifesto for Hounslow | |
| Posted by: | Cllr Sam Hearn | |
| Date/Time: | 27/04/18 16:29:00 |
| "Tory blurb arrived yesterday - not impressed.Lots of promises 'better roads, parks, libraries youth services and waste collection' - great! And all this and 'keeping the council tax low'. I do wish people from the Tory party can explain how it is possible to do more with less and less coming in to fund it." The answer is really quite simple Vanessa. The Labour administration has revealed itself to be financially incompetent in so many areas that even a modest application of common sense from a Conservative led administration would have an immediate and huge impact on the finances of the Borough. We set all this out in our alternative budget in February this year. A Labour Cllr immediately complained in the Borough Council meeting that our budget was illegal. Having taken advise from someone with a little more financial knowledge the Mayor forced the Cllr to apologise and retract his statement. We had a successful a track record between 2006 -2010 that I am sure Paul Fisher and others would confirm. In the last year (2017/18) Labour Hounslow spent £7m more than it was budgeted to spend. If such failures continue to be repeated above inflation council tax rises are inevitable. Labour did not deliver on planned savings and it failed to crack down on overspending departments. It also, by its own admission, failed to claim millions of pounds worth of grants that were available to it. Not surprising really when you realise that these financial geniuses have been trying to run the Borough since 2012 without a Finance Director. This is what they call a "cost saving" - muppets. When challenged on their financial mismanagement Labour Hounslow shriek "austerity" and plead with you to vote for them to end "austerity". The hard fact is that voting Labour (or Lib-Dem) on 3rd May will not end austerity. All existing Labour Councillors knew that they would be serving in a time when tough decisions needed to be made after all it was their own Liam Byrne who told us "there is no money left". You may never have voted Conservative before but if ever there was time not to return yet another Labour councillor - that time is now. Currently 49 out of the 60 Hounslow councillors is Labour. We do not need any more. Link to our Manifesto for more detail Https://www.brentfordandisleworthconservatives.org.uk |