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Green Councillors, Jenny Jones and Carline Lucas at Dopwning Street today |
Six Green
councillors will hand in a joint letter LINK to Number 10 Downing Street
today November 18th on behalf of all 168 Green councillors to call on the
Conservative government to end the destructive cuts to local government.
Ahead of
the Comprehensive Spending review (CSR) the Green Party are calling for an end
to the government’s ideologically-driven austerity programme.
Natalie
Bennett, Green Party Leader, Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, and
Baroness Jones of Moulscomb, will all attend the event.
Bennett
said:
The
Green Party calls on the Prime Minister to not make any further cuts to local
authority spending in the Comprehensive Spending Review on 25th November.
Green
councillors up and down the country tell me on a daily basis how this
government’s cuts are wrecking essential services and damaging communities.
The
Green Party is calling for a genuine review of economic policy in this Spending
Review. Rather than Chancellor George Osborne continuing with his austerity
agenda for the next three years, we must invest in people, in secure energy,
and in vital welfare support.
Caroline
Lucas MP said:
Proposed
cuts to local authority grants will unleash further devastation to communities
across Britain. In Brighton my constituents are facing the hollowing out of
council services – included the proposed closure of up to five children’s
centres.
Enough
is enough. The Government must rethink its callous and counterproductive
austerity programme and give local authorities the resources they need to
deliver service to the people they work for.
Jenny
Jones said:
The
government’s austerity agenda is derailing the provision of services for all of
us, all over the UK. Local government cuts strike at many of the things we have
come to rely on, such as litter collection and services for children and old
people, but also the things which enrich and improve lives, including parks,
leisure, sports, libraries and museums.
The
Prime Minister and his government must be made to acknowledge the damage they
have already caused and we demand that rather than making it worse, they commit
to repairing the damage they have done.