10:00am Wednesday 28th July 2010
Councillor Tanner (Oxford Mail, July 27) is clearly operating on the maxim of “the bigger the lie the more people it will fool” (based on a passage in Mein Kampf).
The Liberal-Conservative coalition in Westminster is grappling with the financial legacy left by Gordon Brown.
We have a debt mountain in this country of £900 billion that threatens our future prosperity. It was created over a nine-year period when Labour wasted the golden legacy they inherited and consistently overspent year-on-year, shoveling money into public services without any concept of reforming them and creating better value for money.
As a result, this country was ill-prepared for a worldwide recession and financial crisis. The children of South Oxford for whom Mr Tanner is shedding some crocodile tears need to understand it was Gordon Brown that mortgaged their future and robbed them of their playground, but it is them and their children and, perhaps, their grandchildren who will go on paying for Labour’s mistakes.
Keith R Mitchell, Leader of Oxfordshire County Council
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