Action is being taken to support our local voluntary sector
LAST week the Express highlighted that Labour are providing £150,000 to our local third sector, funding focused on carers and their families, charities working with people with long-term mental health problems, and groups supporting local vulnerable children.
The Liberal Democrats then disappointingly accused the new Labour Executive of ‘policystealing’ and ‘dishonesty’. It is not dishonest to do something positive and follow through on promises.
It is correct that this funding was ‘announced in March’. What actually happened after it was tactically announced a few weeks before the local elections though?
The answer is that Labour assumed office and had to design the entire application process from scratch within six weeks because the Lib Dems had done very little throughout March, April and May.
In addition the council has now also identified the successful voluntary sector bidder to provide a replacement for the Sir Joseph Whitworth Centre, which closed in December 2015.
Politics is about more than soundbites, it is about action. Whatever the history of neglect and cuts we have been left by the previous council leadership,
Labour is now acting decisively to support our local voluntary sector. Councillor Wendy Wild, Deputy leader of the council, Labour, Davenport and Cale Green
WE DON’T WANT PEOPLE LIKE YOU
I CAN’T believe what scum people have become because they can’t get their own way.
At the EU protest in London some were carrying banners and boards and chanting things like ‘old people go home and die’, and ‘stop all health care for Brexeters, let them die by natural selection’ and others have been sending abusive e-mails to leave MPs.
These were remainers and it shows what kind of people they are. If you’re so unhappy with the result and love the EU so much then move to Europe – we don’t want people like you. Jim Mcguinn Shaw Heath
NO TO NUCLEAR UPGRADING
IS our country’s security based on threatening to wipe out civilization in the world?
Would you press the nuclear button?
This is what nuclear deterrence entails.
We need to urgently rethink our security and how it is comprised, appraising the threats that face us.
Threatening behaviour does not make us safer, rather it is co-operation to deal with terrorism, cyber attacks, climate change, instability, etc.
This work requires resources, far better to be diverted from nuclear weapon upgrading, which is counter to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Phoebe Spence Address supplied
LIB DEMS IN POWER BY 2020?
MARK Hunter said the Liberal Democrats were getting new members at a rate of one a minute.
So we can look forward to a Liberal Democrat government by 2020.
As far as the frustration of the Cheadle voters is concerned, I have spoken to many Remain supporters who regret voting for the status quo and wish they had the strength to vote for something new.
Some 17.4 million people voted for a new world believing that BREXIT was ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’ Roger Lamb Cheadle Hulme