It seems that now they are asking the Conservatives to ignore our successes. The Leader of the Lib Dems has written to Jill Tuck, asking for her to withdraw our manifesto comment that we are the most improved County Council in England because there was no “official announcement” from the Audit Commission.
Except that, as this chart shows, the performance indicators they selected for analysis is proof that Cambridgeshire has improved more than any other County Council in England.
It is a typical Lib Dem trick. It supports the evidence from their own Campaign Guide, which advises the Lib Dems to "Be wicked, act shamelessly, stir endlessly."
That methodology also explains a lot about the Lib Dem’s manifesto for Cambridgeshire, which on the one hand calls for lower Council taxes (ignoring the fact that we are already a low Council tax authority) but then includes a raft of spending commitments. There are two reasons for this:
1. They don’t have to make the sums add up, as their campaign guide also says: “"Don't be afraid to exaggerate” and “why court the unpopularity that goes with the responsibility of power?"
2. Much of what is included in their manifesto is already in hand and being planned by the Conservative led administration.
Do you want to vote for a party that seeks to win power in this way?
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