Some council cuts 'political' (From The Oxford Times)
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Some council cuts 'political'
10:40am Monday 19th December 2011 in News
Banbury MP Tony Baldry claimed some councils are cutting front-line services “simply to make a political point”.
Speaking during a Commons debate about libraries, the Conservative said Tory-run Oxfordshire County Council was keeping its 43 branch libraries open. The council first proposed cutting all funding for 20 but backed down after an outcry.
He added: “Is not the reasonable inference that some local authorities have elected to make deep cuts in frontline services simply to make a political point?”
