Conservative MBC Councillors' proposals to amend the Council's budget to provide a flood relief fund to support villages affected by flooding; to provide more support for parish councils; to provide a welfare hardship fund for tenants; and to provide funding to set up an organisation to engage young people in Melton Mowbray and the villages in a programme of positive activities and establishing a Borough Youth Strategy, and help tackle ASB, have all been rejected by Labour and Independent councillors at the MBC Full Council budget-setting meeting late last week.
The fully-costed proposals put forward by Conservative Councillors would have helped address some of the key issues affecting local people in Melton and the Vale, but despite the clear need for the measures, the Labour-Independent leadership of the Council chose to reject them, with Labour and Independent councillors voting down the much needed support.
Edward, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Melton & Syston, said: "It is hugely disappointing that Labour and Independent Councillors on MBC chose to reject and vote down Conservative Councillors' sensible proposals to help tackle flooding; to help tenants facing hardship; to support Parish Councils; and to help tackle ASB and give local young people access to positive activities. These are all issues that come up again and again to me from local residents, yet the Labour-Independent leadership of MBC in rejecting these sensible proposals are ignoring local needs. With these proposals, it is the local Conservative Councillors who are speaking for Melton & the Vale."
