How comforting to see the local councillor in New Invention in Walsall leading the campaign to prevent the nasty Tory council from closing their local library.
Of course, what councillor Shires doesn’t say is that it is his Liberal Democrat colleagues in the coalition that are carrying out the draconian cuts in local government funding which enables his Conservative friends to use it as an opportunity to close local libraries.
And if you think it is below the belt to blame councillor Ian Shires for the coalition with the Tories, may I just point out that before the Tories took over control of Walsall Council, they were indebted to councillor Ian Shires for propping them up in a Tory-Lib Dem coalition… in exchange for no cuts in his Ward!
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And the quicker they close the vast majority of libraries the better.
Hello! HELLO! We’re in the 21st century now, you know, internet, Google, electronic books, paper-backs that are now as cheap as chips and if little old ladies want a steady supply of pulp fiction they can trawl the charity shops like I do!
Hello there
In areas of slow broadband/low incomes/poor public transport {and to be cut further} such as Tory controlled Somerset libraries are essential. They allow access to the internet which closes the digital divide (which impacts on job searches); we have three charity shops with almost 200 books between them and our local Tesco (which sort of killed the High Street so well it was the location for the BBC Programme Turn Back Time) does not sell a paper back for less than 5% of the single person Job Seekers Allowance pwe book. You are welcome to come down and try living here. Having worked in Sandwell and down here the scenery here is prettier – the needs are still horrendous.
Electronic books work with the internet. Google, last time I tried, also needs the internet. No internet = no access. We fought for our library and won the battle. We will take it forward and secure its future.
think you find Bob that few LD local councillors are mentioning they are the same party as the government
you would be mistaken in thinking that we had two separate LD parties
on a lighter side Bob, a nice line happning in Billsley at the mo with an old foe – Colin Hughes, you read that ?
http://www.labour-news.co.uk/2011/01/30/fun-and-games-in-birmingham-politics-labour-tory-libdem/
FRIGHTENED elderly residents have been told that council chiefs are to be asked to close their care home today in a cost-cutting move.
Carmarthenshire councillors are set to give the go-ahead for the closure of St Paul’s care home in Llanelli, and will also be asked to consider closing Caemaen care home or transferring ownership to an independent provider.
Campaigners say the switch would mean moving 30 elderly residents.
In a message to the Evening Post, delivered by relatives, one elderly resident asked: “Where are they going to put us? We pay our rent, we were told that we had a home here for life, and some of us sold our houses so we could live here.
Seems to me all councils and all parties should be ashamed of themselves, this same council spent 29 million for a new rugby staduim, and is to day talking of spending 44 million on an arts center. It also spent 1 million for a new golfing center for the public, then made a commitee to stop the locals from using it.
The Liberals are just carrying on New labours ideals.
Robert, you said you voted for this government. You’re not the solution you’re part of the problem.