DERBY'S desperate Liberal Democrat cabinet have been caught out claiming credit for a fund to protect jobs for young people - weeks after admitting they knew nothing about it.
Labour group leader Councillor Chris Williamson heaped pressure on Lib Dem leader Hilary Jones and Tory counterpart Harvey Jennings when he wrote to the pair early in the summer, urging them to support Labour's Future Jobs Fund.
The fund aims to ensure young people are not thrown on to the jobs scrapheap during the recession.
Hilary Jones admitted she knew nothing about the fund at the time, but her deputy leader Les Allen has now claimed credit for the scheme in the local media.
We've seen this time and again from the Lib Dems, but rarely have they been so careless to cover their tracks when they're blatantly trying to claim credit for a scheme that had nothing to do with them.
It's another sign of their lack of vision, their inability to think for themselves and their sheer incompetence.
Saturday 15 August 2009
Problem Pot Holes Set to Deteriorate
HOPES that Derby City Council would push forward plans to repair roads and pavements across the city have been dashed after the Liberal Democrat cabinet axed funding.
Derby has faced a backlog of road repairs for many years but the previous Labour-led administration had put prudent plans in place to keep on top of the repairs and gradually ease the backlog.
But the list of repairs now looks likely to spiral out of control after the Lib Dems decided to cut the funding.
The Lib Dems are instead ploughing money into other more specific projects, such as the £1 million they plan to spend on a new swimming pool used by a handful of residents in Blagreaves ward.
We're in a recession and it's inevitable that councils have to prioritise their spending.
But it's difficult to believe that the Lib Dems think that road repairs are anything other than a priority. Not fixing potholes and the like will affect people in every part of the city.
The Labour alternative budget, which the Lib Dems and Conservatives refused to debate earlier this year, would have ensured road repairs remained a key priority in the city.
Derby has faced a backlog of road repairs for many years but the previous Labour-led administration had put prudent plans in place to keep on top of the repairs and gradually ease the backlog.
But the list of repairs now looks likely to spiral out of control after the Lib Dems decided to cut the funding.
The Lib Dems are instead ploughing money into other more specific projects, such as the £1 million they plan to spend on a new swimming pool used by a handful of residents in Blagreaves ward.
We're in a recession and it's inevitable that councils have to prioritise their spending.
But it's difficult to believe that the Lib Dems think that road repairs are anything other than a priority. Not fixing potholes and the like will affect people in every part of the city.
The Labour alternative budget, which the Lib Dems and Conservatives refused to debate earlier this year, would have ensured road repairs remained a key priority in the city.
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