ARE THE TORIES TOO ASHAMED ?

I went along to the Riverside Centre stakeholders meeting yesterday morning. Concern within social care providers, like the Riverside, about the Council budget cuts and the rushed transition to personalisation remains unabated.

Of course this could have been an opportunity for Tory Councillors to reassure providers - and service users - that they have got it all wrong and that there aren't cuts at all, as they have been claiming.

But out of the 22 current members of the Tory group at County Hall, not one was able to answer the invitation. In particular the Council Leader and the relevant Cabinet member. In contrast obviously I was there, as were three Liberals and three Independents. Unlike the Tories we have nothing to be ashamed of......