LETTER: What will our MP take responsibility for?
In response to Gordon Birtwistle’s letter of December 9th entitled “I am working hard for Burnley”.
First, I would like on the record that I welcome the recent good news regarding the Weavers’ Triangle, Todmorden Curve and Burnley Bridge Business Park.
I know the MP would like to take all the credit for progress on these projects so that being the case perhaps he would also like to take responsibility as a member of the Government for the following over the last 18 months: cuts in living standards for hard pressed families, record numbers of young unemployed, university tuition fees trebled, Burnley as a single constituency to disappear, Police numbers cut, NHS services continue to leave the area and the elderly afraid to switch their heating on.
Advertisement
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide AdI do not remember any of these being promised in his election manifesto and he must have worked hard with his Tory colleagues to create such a dire situation so quickly.
COUN. MARK TOWNSEND