No that isn’t a misprint. The council has well over £200m in reserves, is spending hardly any of them, in fact it looks like they may rise further, and on top of that has agreed to  3.9% council tax rise. We tried to get this restricted to 2% for adult care costs but were voted down.

If the council had no money I could understand the council tax hike. If we were protecting services I could understand it. However to simply increase council tax and put the money in reserves whilst our roads and footpaths fall to bits, school buildings deteriorate and our museums are closed just doesn’t stack up.

We will continue to push for affordable investment, protection of services and a reasonable council tax level, whilst Labour just keeps cutting services and pocketing residents money.