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Letter to the Daily Echo
A reminder: Labour councillors voted through cuts to bins but spent millions of YOUR CASH on "arts" at the scandalous Satvir Kaur's Arts Complex instead of the bins, a basic Council service that has failed time and again, while they put Council Tax up and up. Vote them out on 7th May.
Dear Editor,
I read with anger your report of:
Southampton fury as littering leaves high street as 'absolute dump'
It
isn't just Shirley High Street that is a mess, lots of Council land is
also a mess. And it's Labour's failure and cuts that have caused it.
Both
Labour councillors quoted - Cllr Savage and Cllr Winning - speak as if
it was nothing to do with Labour bringing in fortnightly bins.
It
was precisely to do with Labour - Labour councillors voted through
fortnightly bins in February 2017. I was there in the Chamber and
watched them do it.
I spoke against it and
voted against it as Independent Redbridge councillor. The other two
independents from Coxford also voted against it.
Worse than that, Labour promised "to keep weekly bin collections". It was another broken promise.
The
minutes show that Councillor Savage voted for it, as did current Labour
councillors Blatchford, Bogle, Denness, Keogh, Letts, Noon, Payne,
Rayment, Shields and Whitbread. That's a total of ELEVEN Labour
councillors.
Plus, who could forget, Satvir Kaur and Darren Paffey, now both Southampton Labour MPs.
So
if Cllr Winning thinks it was 20 years ago. It wasn't. And if he thinks
somehow his party didn't have anything to do with it. He's wrong.
All
he needs to do is ask Cllr Letts, who was Leader of the Council at the
time. Perhaps Winning and Letts are not on speaking terms?
Southampton people know what to do - vote Labour out. Enough is enough.
I enclose a link to the minutes online. Minutes of Feb 2017 Full Council: https://www.
Regards,
Andrew Pope
Former Redbridge Councillor and Candidate for Redbridge
Independent Network
Southampton Independents
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