COUNCILLOR Walker's complaints about potholes and the reduction of the library raised a wry smile of irony.
Does he not remember how the same happened when John Major slashed our budget taking out branch libraries?
Free knowledge makes uppity oiks. Tut! Tut!
Is this not the same gentleman as was for years Tory leader on Bury Council and since, justifying Tory government's £70 million or £100 million cuts to Bury's public resources since 2010 "to cut the deficit" caused by bailing the banks out of the financial crisis of their own spurning prudence? He physically can, but it is morally unwise, to now decry the results of the actions of his "friends" in Parliament.
Worse . . . in spite of the bent distribution of grants and cuts, for nobody in Westminster, richest authority in the UK, pays more than £1,340 pa. council tax, the present Tory government has still doubled the national debt to 100 per cent GDP — the national "mortgage" — with no apparent explanation than to grant tax cuts of more than £70 billion to those who can afford to pay.
Excusing those who can pay tax from paying taxes is what caused the French Revolution on a debt reckoned at merely 60 per cent GDP!
Our Gordon courted prudence and reduced the national debt to 40 per cent GDP and the interest on it to boot.
Frank Adam
Hartley Avenue
Prestwich
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