Anybody who hoped that after
Labour’s cabinet coup there would be an end to doublespeak about improving
services through cuts will be disappointed because we are being invited to,
“have your say about the council's plans to create
smarter, leaner and more efficient services in the years ahead”
The Council presumably had my
e-mail address because I responded online to their ‘Sustainable Swansea’
consultation last year, demanding that the Labour Council refuse to implement Con-Dem
cuts. Ignoring what I wrote, the e-mail thanked me for helping to slash
millions of pounds from services in Swansea:
“With your help last year we were able to identify
millions of pounds of savings and begin to change so that our services can be sustainable
in the years ahead.”
If Labour councillors are
going to vote through destructive cuts to services then they shouldn’t try to
make the rest of us collaborators in their betrayal. You will never get my help
in making cuts to jobs and services. TUSC supporters will fight every cut.
Those cuts were so successful
in making services sustainable that they’ve come back for much, much more! A
throwaway comment at the end of the e-mail informs us how much Labour
councillors intend to slash from services,
“The challenge is even greater than last year because the
savings target has risen from £45m to at least £70m in the next few years.”
That’s not a challenge; that
a disaster! It’s a disaster that spells destruction for council services and
council workers and devastation for the local economy.
If you’ve had enough of being
made to pay for a crisis that we didn’t cause, while the rich get richer then..
Vote Ronnie Job, TUSC Against
Cuts, today in Uplands Ward today (November 20) and..
Join with us in building
the Trades Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) as the socialist, no-cuts
alternative for the general election and beyond.
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