March 29th 2008
Your Lib Dem Cllrs have submitted a petition to the County Council for action to be taken at the Meadow Lane Cross Roads. Councillor Michael Wyatt has been campaigning for over 10 years for a pedestrian or zebra crossings to be installed at the cross roads. We are waiting for the Officers to put forward their proposals, which we will publish, hopefully in our next Focus.
March 29th 2008
Meadow Lane Zebra Crossing Campaign Success.
Your Liberal Democrat Councillors have worked hard to convince the County Council to install a Zebra Crossing on Meadow Lane. Finally after work was completed a few weeks ago it’s now up and running. Cllr Michael Wyatt said “We have pushed for this crossing for a number of years, even though Labour openly opposed it, saying it was not needed. We are delighted to see it installed and making our children’s journey to the local school much safer.
This is another Lib Dem project we promised to deliver.
March 29th 2008
Councillors Dominic McGill, Julie Roberts and Michael Wyatt are having regular meetings with East Midlands Housing Association to discuss local issues. If you are a residents in Agar Nook and have any issues you wish for us to take up on your behalf please let us know so we can continue to make a real difference.
So far new railings have been put up on Rochdale Crescent to help stop cars parking on the corner making it dangerous. Also after meeting with East Midlands Housing they agreed to put a fence on the footpath off York Place.
New border fencing has been put around the grassed area on Rochdale Crescent to make it safer for children playing on the green.
Only the Liberal Democrats are getting things done in the local area after years of neglect from Labour. We promised to improve the area, and improve it we will.
March 28th 2008
Local BNP fascists have tried to cover up the fact free booze is available after full council meetings for councillors. According to the BNP in a letter to the Coalville Times the free booze was stopped last May. They say the council agreed to have a honesty box.
Infact this was never put into practice due to legal reasons. The Lib Dems tried to scrap the free booze at the last budget meeting but this was defeated after BNP, Labour and Tory Councillors voted against the Lib Dem Budget proposal to scrap freebies for Councillors including free parking permits.
The truth is, the booze tab is still being picked up by the council taxpayer. Anyone wanting confirmation that council taxpayers money is still being used to pay for free booze can write to the chief executive of the council.
Cllr Michael Wyatt said, “This is typical of the BNP, they have not got a clue whats going on. They say one thing and do another. Thats why more and more people are turning their backs on the BNP. How can anyone believe what they say when they can not even get their facts right”.
March 28th 2008
Your Liberal Democrat Councillors are pleased to announce new equipment and a new footpath on Cropston Drive is finally being installed.
Your Liberal Democrat councillors requested the footpath after local residents asked local Councillor Julie Roberts for help. Cllr Julie Roberts said, “We are delighted to see at last the new footpath and new equipment being installed. We will continue to push for more improvements to the area. Labour neglected the area for decades, now you have three local Lib Dem Councillors we are finally seeing the area change for the better”.
March 19th 2008
Local Tory Agent stooped to an all time low for attacking the Lib Dems for having the nerve to put forward a budget. The Tories have clearly shown they are embarrassed and have been shown up by the Lib Dems on the District Council for their lack of vision, and their willingness to keep the free booze and free parking permits for Councillors. Below is a copy of the reply given to the Tory agents letter is the local press.
Dear Editor,
I must say I had a good chuckle to myself after reading the Tory Agent’s letters last week about the District Council’s Budget. This is the first ever budget put forward by the Tories and I can honestly say that they have missed a golden opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of local people.
Instead they decided to create a £250,000 Tory Slush Fund, which will be used whenever they feel fit. Perhaps Mr Bridgen the Tory PPC (the real leader of the Council), who so publicly pulls the strings, is hoping the council can help him with his ambition of becoming our next MP for North West Leicestershire. Using council taxpayers money in this way is nothing more than a disgrace.
The Tory budget failed to address the concerns of parking charges in Coalville. The Lib Dem alternative budget took on board the views of shoppers and traders alike, proposing to freeze the parking charges. The Tory budget decided to increase our council tax by 2%. The Lib Dem alternative proposed to keep the Council tax increase at just 1.5% by implementing tried and tested ‘invest-to save’ measures and not penalising local residents already hit with mounting fuel bills.
The Tory budget allows them to spend £250,000 of council taxpayers money on privatising our Council Housing Stock. The Lib Dem alternative proposed to spend £150,000 of this allocated money to improve and invest in new equipment for recycling, which would have given the council an extra income of £50,000 per annum.
The Tories are obviously very embarrassed by being shown up by the Liberal Democrats who put forward a “workable and robust budget”, not my words but the words of the finance officers at the Council. The Tory budget was bland and lacked any vision but at the same time set up a £250,000 Tory Slush Fund to spend on their own pet projects.
Finally we gave the Tories, Labour and the fascist BNP an opportunity to vote to get rid of freeze booze and free parking permits for Councillors, and yes you guessed it, they voted to keep them. Seems that they’re looking after number one still. When voters get the chance to vote again in May next year, it would be worth bearing this in mind to give Labour, Tory and BNP the kicking they all deserve.
