A closer look at Woking’s Tory bus cuts

Over the last few weeks Woking Labour have been campaigning hard against a proposed  £1 Million of cuts to Woking’s bus services, which are likely to affect some of the Constituency’s most deprived areas. The exact amount  the Tory council has pre-emptively decided to cut has been put at various different figures, but at least these numbers now seem to have stabilised.

I will be telling you more about our campaign in the near future, but between them, Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna’s website on Tories in local government has been covering the proposals in some depth.

If you’re interested, there is a decent indictment sheet here. In the meantime the Lib Dems seem to have taken a typically soft position on the Bus cuts, insisting that cuts of some speculative and undefined amount will have to go ahead, but later backtracking, also trying to appear to be against them. A rather typical Lib Dem approach; contradictory messages for different parts of the Borough.

We’ve heard Woking’s Lib Dem councillors say that they will block Tory plans on many issues before. Local people know what to expect from them as an opposition: lots of words, and very little performance. If you want to protect front line services, the truth is that there is no point in electing the

Tags:Bus cuts, Lib Dems, Public services, Surrey County Council, Tories, Woking Labour