Most vulnerable pay for Tory Fat Cat pay rises!

Ealing’s Tory councillors are making the borough’s most needy and vulnerable fund the extra money they are spending on highly visible services such as graffiti/rubbish removal.While Council leader, Jason Stacey, his Deputy Leader and Mayoress have been enjoying the massive pay rises they awarded themselves last year (average 65%), they have cut the budget for the borough’s looked after children by £380,000 and are deleting a number of front-line posts in mental health.Ealing Labour Group and the Council trade unions condemned these callous cuts which are likely to adversely affect the already reduced health outcomes of some of the borough’s most disadvantaged groups, yet the Tories find them an easy target. Their indifference to the plight of these vulnerable people in our society is perhaps best exposed by the comments of Northfields Conservative councillor, Phil Taylor, who attributes the blame for poor health outcomes on ‘crap decisions’ taken by ‘basket cases’.