get less people In rate week. hope to councillors. are cuts in leader of the Lambeth Labour leader Ted Knight. thereby implement 10 give cuts of 4.5 per cent.
At that group meeting Management Committee resigning. of what about LAMBETH's Labour council recently decided it would not implement cuts in spending reversing previous decision culs. Bill Bowring, Councillor in Norwood, Lambeth, explained to Socialist Challenge what happened. 66 annenced Lam bete moved faster there When cuts in the rate support grant were other boroughs in a way which a lot of us disagreed with very strongl!. The leader got use Here carm oree comer and the Director 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 alternative other than to bankrupt the council there were only councilors who voted goainst those cuts There was an outcry in the Labour Party, and at the next Norwood Labour Party General Plan Wilson myself put forward a motion which called for no cuts, no rate increases, and said Labour councillors should do everything possible to resisi the cats up to ane moong l necessar 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 fake over the finances, that if we did something illegal then commissioners would move in to implement the culs, What we wanted to do was make the issu‹ councillors went for principle asclear as possible.
As the Norwood GMC Ted Knight had a