I am intrigued by the constant spin from the Labour party in Denbighshire. Councils across the whole of North Wales have been struggling with poor funding from the Welsh Assembly.
The Labour led Assembly has doubled its own budget and poured money into its pet schemes in Cardiff and South Wales.
The centrally issued diktats of the Assembly combined with insufficient money to councils represent a nasty stealth tax in which L
abour hope the public blame their local council. In areas where Labour are in control of the council they keep quiet and in areas where they are not in control they stir up trouble and blame local councils for everything they think they can.
Perhaps we shouldn't be suprised as we saw Labour MPs campaigning for post offices after they had voted to close them!
As councils are given more tasks from Cardiff and less money to deal with them they have difficult choices.
Councils cannot increase council tax too much as any increases in council tax impacts hard on those with fixed incomes and council tax rises under Labour have already been excessive.
Equally councils do not wish to cut the main frontline services like education or social care.
It is inevitable that when under these pressures councils have to find some areas where savings can be made without too much pain. Perhaps if there was less money wasted on Cardiff bureaucracy there would be some money for our communities in North Wales.
Matt Wright
Conservative Parliamentary Candidate
Vale of Clwyd
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