Here's a question for you. When Lib Dem Leader, Jack Cohen called the Warden Cuts in for review, how many local Tories voted with Labour and the Lib Dems to retain the wardens?
Not a single one.
How many have actually worked to oppose the cut behind the scenes?
This answer may surprise you a little bit more. Yup there is one. I'm not going to tell you which one, but if you are interested, she stands in the Edgware Ward. It's a shame that she hasn't got the guts to come out into the open, but I can't criticise her too much because she has been put under tremendous pressure by the powers that be. Then again she gets paid a fair old wedge to represent us.
My advice to her is this. You know the policy is wrong and you know why. When the first old lady dies as a result of this policy, will you be able to sleep at night. We both know how you feel about the matter, what is the point of being in politics if you have the chance to make a difference and you don't. If you take a principled stand, you may be the person to make the difference. Stop listening to people like Vanessa Gearson (Mike Freer's "communications chief"), and start listening to the people who elected you to stand up for them.
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Rog
There are several Conservative councillors who oppose the warden cuts but they are all afraid to speak out because the vindictive nature of this Administration means that they will lose their allowances for daring to contradict Freer, Hillan or Coleman.
But these councillors are not worthy of our sympathy. If they think receiving taxpayers’ money is more important than representing the people who voted for them, then frankly they don’t deserve to stay in office.
This would never have happened under the pre-2000 system of local government when councillors stood for election out of a sense of civic duty, rather than as a means to line their pockets with cash.
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