A recent leaflet from the Conservative party (People Talk, page 2) says: “Freezing council tax. Conservatives will work with local councils to freeze council tax for two years, by reducing wasteful spending.”
However, the budget plans of the Conservative/Independent Cornwall Council tells us that this coming year, 2010/11, council tax will go up by 2.9 percent. For the next three years after that there are planned percentage rises of 2.5, 2.25, and 2.0 percent.
Freeze and spend, Mr Thomas?
The great mystery about Mr Derek Thomas, prospective Conservative MP for St Ives is,well, just what’s he doing in the Tory party? He looks nice, talks nice and is up to his neck in Good Causes and Good Deeds, now and over the years – if, that is, we are to believe a Tory election publication entitled ‘West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly News.’ As we do.
Perhaps the answer is that Mr Thomas is so nice he just doesn’t get it.
Derek Thomas, the prospective Conservative MP for St Ives, has let slip his view that the Tories won’t win the general election.
‘To change the government in Westminster, the Conservative have to win here in St Ives’, Mr Thomas opines in an election leaflet arriving at my address this morning. (What’s happened to my ‘No Junk Mail’ edict?).
So, Gordon, on Mr Thomas’ analysis, you can settle down to another five years in Downing Street.
