Jul 05 2007
Bogus consultation over local spending
I hear that the government is going to ask the voters in some trial areas what they would like extra money spent on by their Council.
it just never occurs to them that most of us would like our Council to cut the Council Tax - but I bet that won’t be an option they offer!
I also wonder why we would??want to go on paying so many Councillors, if we now have to do the spending budgets ourselves. it’s just another tacky gimmick that will cost us more money as taxpayers.



















John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...