Online efforts hit

• YET another cut from the Liberal Democrats and Tories running Camden will hit local people struggling to make their way through these tough times.
This time the axe is falling in a swingeing 82.5 per cent cut to Camden’s UK Online Centres budget.
These vital centres help people to use computers – essential as more and more everyday activity relies on accessing the internet, from applying for housing to filling in tax forms and applying for jobs and benefits. Yet many people can’t access the undoubted benefits of being online.
The UK Online centres give thousands of residents Camden easy access to the web that many take for granted.
Kilburn will suffer disproportionately, as there are a number in our area: at Kingsgate Resource Centre on Webheath, at Kilburn Library and Youth Centre at the bottom of the High Road; and SHELL on Boundary Road and the Latin American Association on Kingsgate Place.
As with other Lib Dem/Tory cuts, it will be the most disadvantaged, the elderly and poorer children who will be hit the worst, who either don’t have access at home or need help to get online. 
So much for a council willing to help people improve their skills and access benefits many of just take for granted.
Signing the petition against these cuts at: www.ipetitions.com
See: supportcamdenuk-online
MIKE KATZ
Chair, Hampstead & Kilburn Labour Party
Gladys Road, NW6