Yesterday's EADT

Laurence Cawley did a fair job of trying to balance the views of the parties in his article on page 19. However I don't think either "heritage" or "bin collections" are really "at the top of the agenda". St Eds spends far more on the former than other councils (£6M on leisure, including parks and heritage) and is a national leader in the field for the latter. The only reason these issues would be so important is to show what a competent Conservative administration has existed since the ghastly "rainbow" coalition left us with a council tax rise of 9.9% - now down to 2.9%. Isn't that an important issue? Labour and LibDems are jumping on the middle school bandwagon, their representatives having originally voted for the schools review. This has nothing to do with these borough council elections and is blatant and negative political opportunism. Hardly surprising that Labour "leader" Mark Ereira, apparently with half the number of Conservative candidates, would "work with all groups" - he has already proposed the nomination in Abbeygate ward of the so-called "Independent" and "Green" candidates. Who does he really support - anyone who will work with him to try to make another rainbow? The Liberals want to "extend recycling" (difficult to do more than is being attempted already), "rethink spending priorities" (which means increasing them?) and be more "representative and responsive" - they could hardly be much less active than the present LibDem group on the Borough Council. As for UKIP and the Green Party...