Labour Group working with officers to prepare amendments to the forthcoming budget, with the aim of preventing further vandalism of our services.

News from Havering Labour.

In ‘Lady Windemere’s Fan’, Oscar Wilde had Lord Darlington quip that a cynic was ‘a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.‘

The current leadership of Havering Council, pretending at civility, has persisted in the face of opposition from across the community, and within it’s own Group, to deny the social value of Havering’s libraries.

St Albans’ Councillor Jane Keane is dismayed that the Havering Residents Association refused to see sense at the full Council meeting on September 4th, and has refused to rule out the closure of libraries, “libraries are a statutory service, and an immense social good, and any responsible council would be seeking to invest some of the hundreds of millions of pounds it has borrowed in extending and growing the library service, as opposed to withdrawing from some of the more deprived areas in the borough”.

Labour Group Leader, Keith Darvill, along with the rest of the Labour Group, will be working with officers to prepare amendments to the forthcoming budget, with the aim of preventing further vandalism of our services, “Conservative austerity was a political choice, and this is also a choice, we will be seeking to put a comprehensive library service at the top of the political agenda, not an afterthought for a disengaged, and out of touch, minority Administration”.,

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