Amjad Abbasi condemns Labour councillors’ 10% rise in Council Tax, broken housing promises, big cuts in ‘vital’ services & sales of assets

"Residents are facing a shocking 10% rise in Slough's Council Tax from April 2023 because Labour councillors seriously messed up the Town's finances", according to Amjad Abbasi, Lib Dem campaigner pictured near his home in Elliman.

"But there's more bad news", said Amjad. "Labour councillors have also broken their promises on housing and made deep cuts in 'vital' services such as the weekly bin collection that they had previously claimed were 'loved' by residents."

Look at what Labour councillors promised in 2021:

"These projects include the Council's purchase of the former ICI Paints/Akzo Nobel site east of Wexham Road, to provide in excess of 400 social and affordable homes for Slough families on the council's housing waiting list. This will be the largest single contribution to affordable housing numbers in Slough for decades" (Labour Councillor James Swindlehurst, Leader of Slough Council, March 2021 - letter to residents).

Look what Labour councillors did in 2022:

Sold off the former ICI site in late 2022 to become a data centre with no housing, and probably only a few jobs but a large carbon footprint.

Look at what Labour councillors said in 2021:

"We have a weekly bin and recycling collection that is valued and loved by our residents, a green waste collection that continues to be free, we have excellent libraries, ten children centres" (Labour Councillor James Swindlehurst, Leader of Slough Council, March 2021 - budget-setting debate reported in What's On In Windsor & Slough).

Look what Labour councillors did in 2022:

Decided to end weekly bin collections from June 2023; introduced charges for green waste collection; made cuts in the library services; & voted to offer residents consultation consisting of a choice between cutting 7, or 8 or 9 of the 10 Childrens' centres.

Finally Amjad said, "There's more to follow later on Labour councillors' deep cuts to many other council services such as street cleansing, and their sale of hundreds of millions of pounds of our town's assets to pay for their mistakes.............................