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Best of a bad bunch is gone
September 21, 2000 12:00 AM
By Cllr Ray Fincher, Liberal Democrat Group Leader in Feltham Chronicle/Hounslow Chronicle
By Cllr Ray Fincher, Liberal Democrat Group Leader in Feltham Chronicle/Hounslow Chronicle
Two Hounslow Labour councillors have recently resigned.
Pam Wharfe is leaving because of a career move that makes it impossible to continue on the council and we wish her the best of fortune.
The second, Brian Price, is retiring for health reasons. Brian has been a councillor for many years, mainly in Brentford where he lives. However, at the last election his Labour comrades turfed him out of Brentford and he was parachuted in to Bedfont.
At the time we thought it was a strange move, but Brian has proved to be the best of a below-par Labour bunch in that area.
We wish him all the best in his retirement and will miss his trenchant interruptions of opposition contributions to council meetings - even if, on occasion, we failed to see the connection between the interruption and the point being debated.
On a completely different topic, I am delighted that our leader Charles Kennedy has committed Liberal Democrats to a campaign to increase basic state pensions by £5, on top of any inflation increases, with those over 75 getting £10 and over 80 £15.
While we all know that Chancellor Gordon Brown is storing his war chest of tax revenue to sweeten us for a General Election, retired people need money now!
It is generally agreed that the 75p per week handed out this year by Labour was insulting to pensioners. I question whether the administrative costs incurred by the Government in paying such a niggardly sum may have been equal to the increase.
Not much joined up thinking here!
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