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Friday, 21st May 2010
A major Tory U-turn on bin tax has been criticized by UKIP’s
local government spokesman, Pete Reeve.
In yet another example of the Tories watering down promises and
backtracking on manifesto pledges, new Environment minister
Caroline Spelman said yesterday that councils should be free to
impose their own taxes on refuse collections.
The statement comes despite a Conservative manifesto pledge to
encourage councils to pay people to recycle, and only four weeks
after Mrs Spelman claimed the Tories would scrap Labour’s bin
bully policies of bin cuts, bin fines and bin taxes.
Pete Reeve, UKIP councillor for Huntingdonshire and
Cambridgeshire, said: The Conservative promise to not allow an
extra tax on families for collecting house hold bins was just a
load of rubbish.
Cameron's Party has lost its way and abandoned traditional
Conservative values. This issue simply highlights what UKIP has
been saying all along a promise from Cameron is simply not to be
trusted.
With council tax rises rightly capped, but mismanagement and
political correctness causing costs to escalate, it will be all
too tempting for Councils to take advantage of the new stealth
taxes.
Conservative voters are now seeing Cameron and his ministers for
what they are politicians prepared to compromise Conservative
values and break promises.
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