EALING Council has just set the budget for the coming year. Of course I supported the Labour council continuing the previous Conservative council's record of not increasing the council tax.
However, along with all Conservative councillors, I voted against the budget because I disagreed with so many of their priorities and choices.
How can the Labour councillors, with all conscience, justify spending £3.6million to upgrade the computers in the council's back-offices, and £1m for all the desks in Perceval House to be made a few inches shorter, when they voted to shut the Albert Dane day care centre?
How can the Labour councillors seriously vote to spend £5.5m to build another car park in Southall, when nearby roads have many free spaces and could be adapted, and the multi-storey car park nearby is not full?
How can the Labour councillors be so disingenuous as to spend £3.5m to bring the council's housing administration back in-house, when they told tenants and leaseholders that it would actually save them £5m?
How can the Labour councillors seriously agree to spend £250,000 on golden payouts for Ealing's social workers at the same as laying off park rangers and enviro-crime prevention officers?
I believe strongly that the Labour councillors have been making some alarming and tragic choices and we will continue to scrutinise their decisions and hold them to account
COUNCILLOR DAVID MILLICAN Conservative representing
Northfield ward Ealing Town Hall
