they get less people in Lalc WEEK hope councilors are leader of payllig LUC Lambeth Labour leader Ted Knight. thereby implement other boroughs to give cuts of 4.5 per cent. Management of LAMBETH's Labour council recently decided it would not implement cuts in spending — reyersillg . previous decision cuts. Bill Bowring, a Labour Councillor in Norwood, Lambeth, explained to Socialist Challenge what happened.
66 When cuts in the rate support grant were announced Lambeth moved faster than in a way which a lot of us disagreed with very strongly. The leader got together the chairperson of each committee and • the rector of each Directorate and this was done in secret, and told them to produce plans This was then presented to the Labour group as a fait accompli so that there was no alternalive otner lan to bankrupt te council. At that group meeting there were only councillors who voted against those cuts.
There was an outcry in the Labour Party. 'and at the next Norwood Labour Party General Committee Wilson myself put forward a motion which called for no cuts, no rate increases, and said Labour councillors should do everything possible to resist the cuts up to and including if necessary The reason we put that forward was that we were told that if the council failed to make interest payments then the Director of Finance could immediately move in and take over the finances, that if we did something illegal then commissioners would move in to implement the cuts. What we wanted to do was make the issue Labour councillors were for principle as clear as possible.
As the Norwood GMC Ted Knight had a