Councillor Jarett boasts a “pro-business” budget, but what
about the rest of us?
The loss of 137 jobs, the axing of the Fuse Festival and a
real terms pay cut for carers, library workers and refuse collectors. This
budget smacks of a council complicit with central government’s austerity
agenda.
If councillors are only prepared to re-arrange the
deckchairs on the Titanic, then what exactly is the point of them? When chronically under-resourced Local
Government is subject to further cuts handed down from Westminster, we need
councillors who will fight back.
We need a budget that meets the social and civic needs of the people of Medway
and councillors who will demand the funding for it from central government.
George Osborne boasts of recovery, but where’s ours?
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