Lib Dems question Labour-Green 'Understanding'
June 6, 2006 12:00 AM
Liberal Democrat Norwich City Councillor Judith Lubbock has raised questions about the 'Memorandum of Understanding' signed by the Labour and Green Party since the May elections, and which has been recently been made public.
The 'understanding' is about how to run the City Council now that Labour are the largest party but failed to win the 20 seats needed for a majority.
Writing in the Norwich Evening News, Cllr Lubbock said: 'How quickly Green manifesto commitments have been watered down as a consequence of the two parties' 'understanding'.
For example a Green Party commitment to 50% affordable housing on all developments has become 'support in principle proposals to the Local Development Framework Working Party of 35% affordable housing of any development over 10 dwellings....'. A far cry from their
idealistic figure of 50%. The current Local Plan already states 'up to 30% affordable housing on developments over 25 dwellings'.
'People who voted Green will be looking closely at such compromises and at how their vote is now supporting a Labour Party who took this country into an unjust war with Iraq, favours nuclear power, restricts civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism, and follows many other unjust and illiberal policies.
'And I wonder how many Green voters realised that when they gave their vote to the Greens that it would result in a return to a Labour administration, supported by the Greens?'
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