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Abandonment of Waste Deal raises concerns about Conservative reliability as partners
November 30, 2010 12:41 PM
Originally published by Northamptonshire County Council Liberal Democrats
Originally published by Northamptonshire County Council Liberal Democrats
The Conservatives have abandoned a major deal to dispose of the County's waste, 3 and a half years into the making.
Cllr Brendan Glynane, Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition said "The Conservatives appear to have no plan B to the PFI scheme they put forward. The cost of sending waste to landfill is set to soar from its present cost of £48 per tonne up to £80 per tonne by 2018. Without a serious plan in place the cost will either have to be met by cuts to frontline services or hikes to taxes for hard pressed local taxpayers."
"Now the Conservatives are saying to partners that they never really supported the deal anyway. What kind of message does that send out to people who have been working with them for years?"
"The Conservative County Council needs to make significant savings to deal with the £136m black hole in their finances, and the only way they can do that without seriously hurting the vulnerable is by working with partners to find more efficiencies in service delivery. But who is going to work with people who go 3 and a half years into a deal and then pull out, claiming that they never liked it anyway? This decision shows the Conservatives to be completely unreliable, and must strike fear into the hearts of other potential partners."
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