11:16am Friday 23rd July 2010
At last week’s cabinet meeting, I asked Cllr Reka Shah if there was any threat to Kenton Library.
Cllr Shah assured me there was no threat, and yet Labour’s election literature was littered with dire “threats” to Kenton Library, among many other “threats”.
The point is, there was never any “threat” to Kenton Library.
The only threat to libraries was when Labour blew Harrow’s balances and left a hole the size of Arizona in the budget.
The only real threat of high-rise buildings in Harrow Town Centre was under a Labour council.
I remember Navin Shah’s evasive grandstanding on this issue, when, with inadequate safeguards it was his council that sold off the Dandara site and misled the public about the whole fiasco while blaming the Conservatives.
And now, reverting to type, Labour has a long list of unfunded projects and edifices and look set to plunge Harrow back into a financial mess again.
I remember their last “legacy” — the pedestrianisation of Wealdstone, the bulldozing of the community centre and the blocks of rabbit-hutch flats with no parking.
I hope that this time I am wrong, but the signs aren’t good. The new Government is clearing up the legacy of Labour again and it seems that in 2014, we Conservatives here in Harrow, are going to have to do likewise.
Jeremy Zeid, Conservative team, Kenton West
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