Labour Controlled Wakefield Council fails Wakefield District again!

Wakefield's Labour Council routinely complains about government cuts.

Yet has a bigger budget in 2015 than 2010.   Labour talks about a cost of living crisis yet they raised Council Tax in Wakefield this year and they want to put it up again next year.

The Labour Council  spent £3 million on a new indoor market in 2008 which it now wants to demolish.

Last November Labour Councillors en masse forced through a 321% pay rise for a Labour Committee Chairperson using local taxpayers money, challenged by the Conservative and recorded for posterity as first webcast of a Wakefield Council meeting.

The Labour Council spent £1.4 million of its road budget last year on an insurance premium and to settle claims for damaged vehicles, rather than spend the money on the backlog of road repairs

The Labour Council pays £227,000 of tax payers money a year to fund 6 full time Union Convenors

The Labour Council spent over £1.2 million last year on outside management consultants, because they can't make their own decisions?

The Labour Council plans to spend up to £450 thousand pounds of local tax payer's money on purchasing and repairing the Wakefield Crown Court building, empty since 1994, but claims it cannot justify maintaining swimming pools in the 5 Towns or in the South East of the district.

The Labour Council plans to spend up to £663 million pounds of tax payer's money and Council reserves this coming year (source Labour Councillor's elections address) but claims it cannot justify maintaining front line or leisure services, yet still intends to spend money on funding political cronies.

The Labour Council is spending £2 million pounds of tax payer's money to refurbish Wakefield Town Hall, says it cannot justify maintaining swimming pools, but still intends to spend money on funding political cronies.

The Labour Council is spending £4.1 million pounds of tax payer's money on the Northern Relief Road, people have already labelled it "the road to nowhere" the money could have been better spent on reducing the £68 million pound backlog of road repairs across the district.

The Labour Council paid the former Chief Executive £545,000 as a payoff when he stopped working for Wakefield Council.  He says he was paid to leave Wakefield because of a "political decision by the Leader of the Council."  You may wonder how often this happens but details of special payments such as this one are typically blocked using gagging clauses or confidentiality agreements. 

Freedom of information requests are rejected, the Council really does not want you to know. Is your money used wisely? 

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