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Letter to The Argus about Vale Park in response to a shamefully opportunistic attempt by the Labour MP for Hove to blame the newly elected Conservative council administration for woes of the recently ousted Labour administration Following
the Labour MP for Hove comments on Vale Park (Argus 2 June) I cannot let
the facts pass without comment. Despite
this Labour Government’s best efforts to squeeze local authorities by
slashing council settlements each year this Conservative administration is
doing a fantastic job in putting right all the neglect we had seen in past
years - years when Brighton & Hove was run by the Labour Group. A fact
I highlighted in a campaign specifically on Vale Park in September 2007!
(Details on my web site www.mikeweatherley.org.uk) For
the record, in 2007 (after the last Local Election) £20,000 of cash was
allocated from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund to be used for capital works
in Vale Park. In addition £27,000 has been identified as part of ‘101’
funding (quid pro quo funding from local building projects) to provide
further improvements. This was done in consultation with local volunteer
development workers, the local residents and both local councillors
including newly elected Conservative Councillor Steve Harmer-Strange. Trying
to say it is the ‘Council’s fault’ that some improvements are
slightly behind schedule is shameful opportunism and misrepresentation –
and it is to forget that Labour had a decade to get it right and failed. Yours
sincerely MIKE
WEATHERLEY Conservative
Parliamentary Spokesman Click here to read about the Conservative campaign in 2007 to make improvements to Vale Park. Click here to read a response to ANOTHER deliberate misrepresentation of the facts by the Labour MP for Hove just one week later!
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