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News and Comment March 2025

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15 March - Labour’s initial response to the Tory budget

The first Councillor to respond to the new budget was Zainab Asanramu (Labour, Thamesmead East) who said that the Council Tax Reduction scheme is being made less generous (25% higher charges) because “it was chronically underfunded by the Tory government”. She then launched the near standard 14 years of “declining support” speech with which few would disagree. Austerity, poverty, potholes, service cuts and a Council on the brink of bankruptcy all got a brief mention.

The Labour Government is going to fix all those things and the news should be met with “jubilation”. Notably they are going to tackle the greedy childrenְ’s care providers charging £16,000 a week. Breakfast clubs and school uniform changes will save Bexley families “up to £500 a year whilst this Bexley Cabinet want to see more people suffer. Labour is in the business of rebuilding the country in the aftermath of a decade and a half of Conservative chaos and sleaze”.

Nicola Taylor (Labour) was next. “Erith needs homes not built on green spaces that most people of Erith cannot hope to own which are bought by buy-to-let landlords, but social homes where they can put down roots. They don’t want to be sent to Leeds, Corby or Gravesend”. No doubt very true. Labour controlled Gravesend is an absolute dump.

 

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