MPs should stand up and help council get fairer funding
YOUR report that the county council needs to save yet another £54m and they want “people to take the time to read through the savings and make suggestions”.
I do not know how many council tax payers do respond and give their opinions, but I do know continual cuts have a devastating effect on vulnerable people and other services. Therefore I expect their relatives and representatives do have an opinion.
My opinion would be for all Leicestershire council tax payers to respond by saying “No more cuts”, we have had enough of cuts, and the unfair grants we receive from central government. The county council needs to do a “Surrey” and announce a 15% rise tax. Then probably our inept Leicestershire MPs would wake up and do something to change this unfair funding.
The council state if it was fairly funded we would receive £35m more from government,a hugh chunk of the £54m needed to be saved. Nicky Morgan a Leicestershire MP recently states on Question Time that she opposes Brexit because of the interest of her constituents. Surely her constituents more pressing interest is fair funding and services provided for them.
As for our own MP, we are still in the dark as to his opinions as in the past I have requested him, through the HT, to inform us how this unfair funding originated and how he is going to get a fair deal for us.
Probably it is time for your paper and other local publications to put the MPs to task. We have to brace ourselves for a 6% increase in council tax announced by the Government. Yes we will moan and blame county and local councils for this rise but the blame is solely on Westminster and therefore on the people who are elected and suppose to represent our interests there.
As Leicestershire is the worst funded, remember £35m short if fairly funded, probably gives the answer to how our own and all Leicestershire MPs are doing in looking after our interests. The result for them in any other employment, would certainly be dismissal.
S Lewinsohn, Hinckley