UKIP hands power to Labour

by danielbarker on 13 August, 2014

Twice in as many months UKIP has handed power to Labour. In June they handed the Chairmanship, and with it, control of Willenhall Area Partnership to Labour. On Monday at a special meeting of Walsall Council one of their members was on holiday, so didn’t turn up for an important vote on the future of Walsall, allowing Labour to take control there for the first time in 14 years.

On the night Labour managed to field a full house of its 30 councillors. One was brought in on crutches having recently broken her ankle and three were flown back from their holidays at the expense of their local party.

All three Liberal Democrats were there as were the 21 Tories 2 Independents and 1 Democratic-Labour councillors. However, the one missing UKIP councillor was all it took to allow Labour to win the vote.

We will all be hoping and praying that the new administration will not do as they have done elsewhere in the midlands – allow vulnerable people to suffer by savage cuts and then blame the Coalition Government – and will instead follow in our footsteps by investing in the third sector to allow them to take on many of the services that Walsall Council can no longer afford to do.

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