A Motion in Council - Labours something for nothing culture.

On Wednesday the controlling Labour Group proposes to pass a motion criticising the Coalition Governments proposed welfare reforms. This type of action is a regular occurrence since Labour lost control in the 2010 General Election. Labour in Wakefield have been in control since 1974 and they really do not welcome change or at any stage acknowledge the damage that they caused whilst in government, quite the contrary they seem to have conveniently mislaid 13 years of Labour government.

Labour left Britain in a mess and we need to clear it up. Labour left us spending £120 million every day just paying the interest on the debt – and that bill is getting bigger. (The interest bill on the Mid Yorks Hospital Trust PFI for instance is about £100,000 pounds a day or just about a billion pounds over the next 30 years and our MPs are blaming government cutbacks).

The banks and a soft touch regime of controls made a bad situation worse, but what really got Britain into this mess was years of Labour spending money we didn’t have.

It would have been much easier not to deal with the debt problem. But everyone knows that, as when someone runs up a massive credit card bill, the longer you put off dealing with debt, the worse it gets and the more it costs.

Delay would just pass this generation’s debt onto our children, stall any chance of economic recovery and cost even more.

Labour created a something for nothing culture. Labour’s something for nothing culture was about more than just the Government borrowing money that we did not have.

They failed to tackle welfare reform so that it was easier to sit at home rather than going out to work, but then, unbelievably, they voted against our plans to cap benefits.

Under Labour, housing benefit soared out of control and rents for those on housing benefit rose more than market rents. As a result, the Labour government ended up spending £192 billion a year of taxpayers money on welfare payments, which was more than the combined spending on defence, education and health.

If the Labour Group in Wakefield had their way nothing would change and the borrowing bill would continue to grow.

They simply do not acknowledge the wishes of the many people of Wakefield who are sick and tired of paying the bill for their dogmatic determination to go back.