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> Tory Council Cuts: Find out how you can oppose them!
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Wandsworth Tories want to slice up our community |
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Closure of Historic Wandsworth Museum
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Our local
heritage threatened
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NO consultation
with local people
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Over 30,000 visitors a year |
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One of
best council-run museums
in Britain
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Tories ignorant of benefit to the 8,000 school
children who visited
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Tory position contrasts with Labour’s drive to free
access for museums
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More cuts and hikes in charges
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The Tory Council plans to:
cut
Tooting fireworks
close
West Hill and
Alvering Libraries
increase
home care
charges
by 30%
doubled
day care
charges
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put up
residents’ parking charge to £75
put up
council rents by 8%
Close
2 Youth Clubs
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STOP PRESS….. STOP PRESS….. STOP PRESS….. STOP
PRESS….. STOP PRESS…..
Battersea Arts Centre
was threatened with huge grant cut, but has been
saved
thanks to immense pressure from
local campaigners |
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How to pressurise them to change their minds…. |
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Lobby the 10-11am Councillor's Surgeries in
Battersea, Putney and Tooting Libraries every
Saturday between now and the 28th March, when the
council budget is finalised
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Write to your Councillor(s), demanding that they say
how they will vote at Full Council on 28th
March - and why
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Post your views on your local internet chatgroups -
Furzedown.net, Tootinglife.com, PutneySW15.com etc
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Write letters to Brightside, the Borough News and
the Guardian
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Write to Edward Lister, Leader of the Council at:
The
Leader's Office, The Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street,
London, SW18 2PU.
Or by email at
elister@wandsworth.gov.uk
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What Sadiq has been doing in
Parliament to oppose the cuts
The cuts
represents the Conservative
Council’s preference for cutting cost over maintaining our
cultural heritage.
Sadiq has
raised this matter in Prime Minister’s Question's. His question and the answer from Tony Blair
is set out below:
“My right hon. Friend will know of the massive investment in
our museums and galleries that has led to millions of new
visitors. In the light of that, will he comment on the
decision by the London borough of Wandsworth, only nine
months after council elections at which it remained silent
on the subject, to close the very popular Wandsworth museum
and threaten Battersea arts centre with closure? Is that not
an example of a
Tory
council choosing cuts over cultural heritage”?
Tony Blair: “Let me add to what my hon. Friend has said by
pointing out that we have substantially increased the grant
to
local
government. There is absolutely no cause for the
closure of museums and arts centres that perform such a good
local role. And of course it is this Government, as a result
of our policy of free entry to museums, who have enabled
literally millions more visitors, including children, to go
to museums. My hon. Friend has given a telling example of
the difference between the values of a
Labour Government and those of a
Tory
Government.”
To
view in full click
HERE
Battersea MP Martin Linton, the Wandsworth Labour Group of
Councillors and Sadiq are doing all they can to prevent such
a loss to Wandsworth.
sadiq and
martin have presented 2 separate Early
Day Motions to the House of Commons about the closures,
which have now received cross party support.
Unfortunately Putney Conservative MP, Justine Greening, has
refused to sign either EDM’s.
To read the EDM on Wandsworth Museum click
HERE
To
read the EDM on Battersea Arts Centre click
HERE
Sadiq says: "We
will continue to work with local residents, groups and
schools to campaign against these closures and to ask others
to join our campaign.
your
support is essential if we are to be successful in our
campaigns to stop the Tory Council decision".
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