The one per cent council tax cut puts our library service at risk.
As the proposed cuts to the library service opened up for consultation, we should remember that the Conservatives cut our council tax by one per cent this year; a move supported by Labour.
This gave individual households a meagre 21p a week in savings, yet all combined cost the council £1.4million per year.
The £2.85m cuts over five years the Conservatives claim we must find in the library service, would not be necessary if instead they froze council tax, keeping £7m over a five-year period.
Six months ago, the leader of the Conservative group gleefully announced ‘frontline services have been largely protected and we have also been able to cut your council tax” in their election manifesto. This frontline service is now paying for that cut.
Alasdair Hill
Barnet Liberal Democrats
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