Better at cutting

Published: 6 January, 2011

• I DON’T often take issue with Councillor Keith Moffitt, but I did smile at his references to Camden’s “Lib Dem-led” administration (The Town Hall honeymoon’s over, December 9). Camden was run for four years by a Lib Dem-Conservative coalition, with four Conservative cabinet members out of 10.

Our local Lib Dem-Conservative partnership represented more than 50 per cent of the vote in the 2006 election, compared with Labour now running Camden on a minority of the vote.  

I’ve no doubt that either a Conservative or Lib Dem-Conservative council would be doing a somewhat better job of making the necessary cuts while protecting services as best as possible. We have a more innate sense of value for money and a toughness in challenging the status quo.

I welcome the proposals in Labour’s budget to cut senior staff costs by 20 per cent and to freeze the council tax for another year. This will be hugely welcomed by many people on modest incomes.  

CLLR ANDREW MARSHALL
Conservative, Swiss Cottage