Lambeth Conservatives

Labour Lambeth has set the highest council tax hike in London - a whopping 4.75 per cent and well above pension and inflation increases. This goes with the 7.23 per cent rise in rents for Lambeth tenants, which hits low income earners hardest who are not on benefits.

"Labour is spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave, but it's not their money," says Stuart Barr. "Spin and propaganda such as the new tabloid Lambeth Life are costs an extra £200,000 a year. Labour councillors voted themselves huge salary expenses and they go on rising year on year."

Meanwhile, many Conservative councils elsewhere in London are cutting council tax or freezing it. "Lambeth Conservatives proposed an increase of just 2.4 per cent without any cuts in services," says Stuart. "This shows what can be done if waste and red tape is cut. The council has actually employed an interior designer at £40,000 a year - it shows what they think is important. Decorating the town hall instead of helping the elderly, disabled, homeless, and vulnerable."

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Tenants in Vassall ward have been clobbered with a 'double whammy' of tax and rent rises by Labour councillors.

First there was an inflation-busting 7.23% rent rise for council tenants. Now Labour Lambeth will rubber stamp a 4.75% council tax hike - and bills will drop through our letter boxes in early March.

"Both the rent and council tax rises are the maximum allowed by Gordon Brown," says Vassall by-election candidate Stuart Barr. "At the same time tenants face the prospect of wages and benefits increasing by less than half those rates."

The bad news will continue.

"Labour also propose increases for tenants in parking and garage charges," adds Stuart. "In the meantime, Labour councillors have their snouts in the trough and are happy to award themselves massive and undeserved increases in their own take home pay at your expense."

Conservatives will fight to keep council tax and rent increases down - like Tory-run Wandsworth where council tax is half that of Lambeth.

Labels: Allowances, Council tax, Housing, Rent, Stuart Barr, Vassall ward

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