Camden Labour are now adding insult to injury. The Labour-run council cut the core grant of the Holly Lodge Community Centre to zero – despite putting out leaflets during the Highgate by-election saying they were saving the Community Centre. But now they’ve also decided to cut the luncheon club at Holly Lodge.
Once upon a time Labour cared about the weakest and least well off in our society, the sort of people who use the Holly Lodge Community Centre and its luncheon club. For many of those older people the luncheon club is one of their only hot meals of the week and perhaps their only chance for a communal gathering.
Labour is no longer a party which cares about social justice that much is clear. Tony Blair began the process of turning Labour into a party which was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich” and primarily concerned about winning elections at any price. These days Camden Labour seems to be about cutting frontline services and removing community safety nets.
Nationally the Labour Party basically support the coalition government’s cuts programme – it’s just that they want to go a bit slower. Only the Green Party is saying that the national and local cuts are fundamentally and ideologically wrong. Only the Green Party would like to stop spending money on useless military hardware like Trident and spend it on frontline services like the Holly Lodge luncheon club.
There is a fairer Greener alternative.
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