PRESS RELEASE
Labour couldn’t add up then, why would we expect them to be able to add up now?
It’s not entirely unexpected to see Roma Mills conflate national and county issues with district as residents are set to go to the polls on 3 May for District Elections.
The simple truth is St Albans Labour can’t add up locally, and Labour definitely can’t add up nationally.
Let’s fact-check Cllr Mills’ claim that resident’s face ‘the inflation-busting increase in Council Tax’:
At District, Labour voted against a below inflation increase of 1% in Council Tax. This was the first increase in 8 years. Hardly "inflation busting". The only thing that can be concluded is yet more false claims and false promises from Labour at both a local and national level.
Not only have Conservatives frozen Council Tax for eight years, but we’ve increased the recycling rate to just under 60% saving residents £600,000 every year in landfill taxes.
Equally, Conservatives have recently delivered the District’s first newly built social rented housing in a quarter of a century in Batchwood - Cllr Mills’ backyard no less!
The simple truth is if you want value for money and very well run services then on 3 May residents should vote Conservative and send Conservative District Councillors back to the Civic Centre to get on with a job we’re doing well.
Alec Campbell
Leader of St Albans Conservatives and St Albans District Council
For More Information Contact
Jock Wright Email: jock.wright@outlook.com
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St Albans Conservatives Association
Labour for St Albans 2018
Working for the Many and not the Few
Labour candidates across the City and District are campaigning against the Government’s austerity drive which has cost St Albans millions of pounds and led directly to cuts in public services and a massive hike in Council tax.
Labour leader Roma Mills has blasted the Conservative and Coalition Governments’ obsession with reducing the public sector that has stripped funding from local services and left hundreds worse off. At the Council Budget-making meeting she blamed central government dogma that has wiped away millions of pounds earmarked to help the most vulnerable, "Back in 2010 At Albans District Council received over £7m from the government out of general taxation. It's been whittled down every year since and next year will amount to one big fat nothing."
Nearly a decade of Tory and LibDem austerity is now resulting in wholesale reductions in services across the public sector with the loss of the last two rehabilitation wards at our hospital, the pulling of funding from Nascot Lawn, local libraries closing, social care in crisis, rising homelessness and ever more families depending on food banks. We no longer have a police station in our District, our schools’ budgets are being squeezed and people are being asked to ‘crowd fund’ to renew our play areas.
That is why Roma and her Labour colleagues voted against the Council's budget and the inflation-busting increase in Council tax. People are being askd to pay more for less. A vote for Labour on 3 May will send a powerful message to Government that we have had enough.