Sutton Council’s ruling Liberal Democrats pride themselves on being a ‘listening council’, but this is a sham according to Sutton’s Conservatives after lambasting the Lib Dems for only receiving a measly 22 replies to their ‘budget consultation’. The exercise, which ended on 25 January, will allegedly help shape the level of council tax for 2008/09 financial year. However local Tories managed to match the entire Lib Dem Council’s consultation in ten minutes flat. They claim that this is another example of the Lib Dems’ ‘consult, consider, ignore’ approach. Read more here.
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