Talk to him!

Published: 24 February, 2011

• I AM astonished by the Conservatives’ shameless attempt to blame local councils for the cuts to funding. 

In your February 17 article you say that there is a £100million funding gap in the council’s finances. Surely this is a decision that the Tory-Lib Dem coalition have taken and not the councillors themselves? 

The government obviously sees local council services as a soft target. All the empty rhetoric from Samantha Cameron about the Surma Centre being fantastic proves that. 

I suppose the difference is that Mrs Cameron visited the centre for the first time just before the general election, whereas Labour MP Frank Dobson helped set it up 30 years ago.

If Mrs Cameron really believes that the centre is fantastic she needs to lobby her husband to increase funding and stop him from viewing local council budgets as a soft target.

S BEGUM
Silverdale, NW1