12:00pm Friday 30th July 2010
AGAIN we are treated to obstructive comments pertaining to Herefordshire Council.
Such unfounded and acerbic remarks about topics ranging from the new surface in Widemarsh Street, the chief executive’s salary and the need for a bypass are indisputably designed to heap ill-founded disparagement on those who seek to ensure Herefordshire revives and maintains a high-class service level.
No doubt the customary detractors of the council will seek to blame it for all ills that have befallen the county.
Presumably it will be blamed for England’s inept performance in the football World Cup.
Past administrations depleted huge funds, yet services diminished through arrant inefficiency, so it was always going to take time to rebuild the equilibrium between low council taxes and decent services, which has been the case for some time now.
Insidious cuts in grants to local councils by the former Labour government obviously added a huge liability to councils, once more for political expediency.
Instead of criticising our council in letters to the Hereford Times we should applaud it for helping to rejuvenate our city and county.
Let the council execute its invaluable functions without the need to respond repetitively to unwarranted disparagement. Let us terminate these rather odious and insensitive criticisms.
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