Gordon Birtwistle & Burnley Liberal Democrats» grit http://www.burnleylibdems.org.uk Fighting for real change for Burnley and Padiham Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:17:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gritting Chaos http://www.burnleylibdems.org.uk/2010/01/11/gritting-chaos http://www.burnleylibdems.org.uk/2010/01/11/gritting-chaos#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:31:43 +0000 Burnley Lib Dems http://www.burnleylibdems.org.uk/?p=389 Last year we had a Labour run County Council and they didn’t grit the roads properly and refused to refill some grit bins.
Now we have a Conservative Council, and again there was chaos as some roads weren’t gritted properly and they refused to refill grit bins.
“We could have avoided this” said Cllr Charlie Briggs, the leader of the Lib Dems on the County Council.  “Last year Lib Dem County Councillors proposed a £690,000 boost for winter gritting but Labour and Conservative Councillors teamed up to vote that plan down.”
“Conservative Councillors gambled that we wouldn’t have a severe winter.  They lost and we are all paying the price.”

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