29% vs 0% ?? A simple no brainer...

The really big message about the Sefton Council budget for 2011/12 is that there will not be an increase in the hated Council tax. That was a very clear objective of Liberal Democrats in these hard economic times when family budgets are stretched.

However, if Labour’s voting throughout the budget process had been in the majority, Sefton’s Council tax rise would have been an eye watering 29%!! Lib Dem colleagues, Councillors Iain Brodie-Brown and Simon Shaw have covered this in detail since the Budget.