Hammering it home

The Tories’ disastrous record in Hammersmith & Fulham shows David Cameron’s Conservatives haven’t changed. Click on the title above to read what 'Progess' has to say about our Tory neighbours.

Tory councils given green light to lower taxes through service cuts

A double act - Ealing's and Hammersmith & Fulham's Tory leaders.



The Times reported this week that Conservative councils are promising upfront tax cuts, squeezing spending and cutting back on funding for voluntary groups with the approval of David Cameron's inner circle. Despite the professed concern and rhetoric about social and environmental credentials many Conservative councils, including Ealing, are making cuts to services for the elderly and young people.
Ealing's neighbouring Tory borough, Hammersmith and Fulham, is leading the way with the lion share of the 34m worth of cuts to public services. At the last council meeting there were angry protests from several hundred residents objecting to the axing of funding which had sustained charitable groups that had worked with some of the borough's poorest communities. This year, the Ealing Tories benefited from a very favourable financial inheritance from the outgoing Labour administration's prudence which cushioned their cuts. However, they are likley to follow suit next year.

Clink the title above to read the New Statesman's 'Tories' attacks on public services get more exposure.'

TORIES WOULD ROB YOUNG AND OLD OF FREE TRAVEL! NASTY PARTY NEVER WENT AWAY!

The Tories in London are trying to cut London's free bus and tram travel scheme for children under 18 in full time education. The scheme was supported by 8/10 Londoners and has helped hundreds of thousands of families save as much as £350 per year. The Tories are desperate to make cuts to travel concessions across the board and have also been attacking the Freedom Pass, which gives free public transport in London to older people and the disabled. London is the only major world city to achieve a shift of people from cars to public transport. Free travel contributes to the public transport culture that's required if we are to keep the city moving. Margaret Thatcher once said, 'When I see a man of 25 riding the bus, I see a man who has failed in his life.' This anti-public transport attitude still pervades the Tory party today. Beneath the thin veneer of Cameron's Green conversion, it has not changed! The nasty party never went away!