Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Labour blames Tories for by-elections; so not the High Court or, oh, themselves then...

According to the Labour Party Website:
As a result of expensive legal action by the Tory-controlled County Council (paid for out of your council tax), costly and unnecessary by-elections (paid for again out of your council tax!) have been forced on the citizens of Norwich.
Norwich Labour Party believes this money would have been better spent keeping day-care centres for the elderly open and keeping our street lights on after midnight


It might have been more accurate to say:

As a result of THE GENERAL ELECTION by A COUNTRY ANNOYED WITH GORDON BROWN (paid for out of your council tax), costly and unnecessary by-elections (paid for again out of your council tax!) have been forced on the citizens of Norwich BY THE HIGH COURT AS A DIRECT RESULT OF LABOUR'S UNITARY BID.
Norwich CONSERVATIVE Party believes this money would have been better spent IMPROVING OUR ZERO STAR HOUSING SERVICE and ACTUALLY PROVIDING BASIC SERVICES SUCH AS CUTTING THE GRASS VERGES.

;-)

1 comment:

Peter said...

Just to say that without getting into the whole unitary debate I think that part of the problem was the decision became prolonged by the last Labour government. At the end of the day it cost far too much money and yielded no utility.

Perhaps Norwich City Council was premature and should have instead focused on improving their overall performance before they put in a unitary debate.