If we were not in the middle of an election campaign, I would find the behaviour of the Liberal Democrats quite extraordinary. Since however the election is looming on Thursday, I suppose they feel that anything goes at this stage.
On their election material Hadleigh Liberal Democrat candidates are making a totally unfounded claim in order to oppose full merger with Mid Suffolk District Council. As regular readers of this site will know, this is a proposal for which the majority of Liberal Democrat councillors voted in favour only a few months ago.
Included in a Liberal Democrat election leaflet we find the following slogan:
‘If you want to keep parking free in Hadleigh vote no to the merger with Mid Suffolk’.
In reality there is absolutely no reason at all to believe that voting no to the merger would keep short term car parking free.
In fact a slogan closer to the truth would be
‘ If you want to guarantee that short term parking charges will be introduced across Babergh then vote no to the merger.'
This is because full constitutional merger is the only way to ensure that maximum savings are made so that other services and grants can be preserved!Without it we will be forced to make some unpalatable decisions.
It seems the Lib Dems are happy to bend the facts, and turn their backs on this opportunity to save your money, so that they can not only try to win this election, but also hang onto their seats in the longer term. This attitude must seem somewhat selfish to those many public servants whose jobs have already gone, or will disappear in the future.
