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A Fair Deal For
Kingston
Blair and Brown are
starving Kingston of money and forcing your Council Tax up.
The problem
Labour
is fleecing us. A very large proportion of our Council's money
comes from a grant from central government, not from Council Tax.
However,
Kingston gets severely below average grant - far less than the
wealthy Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This means that in order to
provide exactly the same services, Kingston has to have a higher level
of Council Tax than other Boroughs.
Kingston
is in fact one of the most efficient Council's in London. It
spends only £687 per head compared to the London average of
£852. However, the Council recieves less than half the
Government Grant per head of the London average, £217 compared to
£493.
My
action so far
Both the Council and I have strongly campaigned
against our low grant. The Council has made representations to
the minster and I secured, a Parliamentary debate on
the matter on Friday 23rd Feburary 2007 [CLICK
HERE TO SEE MY SPEECH]. However, the Government is still
refusing to budge.
Join the
campaign
If you want to join my campaign against the unfair
grant settlement, I urge you to sign the petition below. The more
voices we get behind us, the more force our arguments have when we put
them to Ministers.
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