Clydebank Post | Opinion | Stop the infighting

Friday, 4th July, 2008

Published: Wednesday, 10th October, 2007 10:00

Stop the infighting

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It seems a long time has passed since the May elections and nothing has changed so far.

This is not our fault they tell us, it is the fault of the last administration.

I was never a great lover of the Labour administration, and when the present administration made a deal with the devil to get its vote, I knew that deal would come back and haunt them.

They now tell us our council is in a financial mess because of the blunders made by the Labour administration, and £10.5m of cuts are needed, nothing has changed.

Then to get our backs up they mention the cuts will be to essential services. Nothing had indeed changed.

Dalmuir Golf Club is mentioned as a possible saving. Didn’t anyone tell them they cannot sell the golf club?

The Germans blitzed Clydebank, but I have lived all my life in Clydebank and witnessed more houses along Glasgow Road and Dumbarton Road blitzed by the then Labour Clydebank town councillors of old — nothing has changed.

The Labour administration cut the swimming lessons for disabled children to a maximum of one half hour per fortnight while able bodied children have one half hour per week.

Real New Labour compassion. Nothing changes.

The canal is also mentioned and the proposed millions going to be spent to make it a bigger white elephant than what it has become — nothing has changed.

Before May 3 all the big political parties promised us the Moon if we voted for them. We will make West Dunbartonshire a better place to live in. Broken promises I think. Nothing has changed.

I have been to a number of council meetings since May 3 and all I have seen is the same political infighting.

Nothing has changed and I have seen Labour councillors refusing to represent us because they are not in power.

We pay them all a lot of our money to identify these problems and apply the solution that is for the best of the people in West Dunbartonshire.

So councillors stop the infighting, stop the party politics, put all your heads together and find the best solution to the problems of West Dunbartonshire.

Lockhart H Cameron, address supplied

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