TONY Blair has put up taxes an amazing 60 times!
Britain is now paying an extra £130billion under Mr Blair and families are another £500 worse off because of council tax and national insurance increases.
But what have we got to show for it?
In 1997, he said he would get people off the NHS waiting list. There are still one million people waiting for operations?
He said he would be tough on crime. Gun crime has doubled under Labour.
Does he realise that Blackburn has a drugs problem worse than Lancashire as a whole? Or that our town has three wards with burglary rates twice the national average?
He said education would be his first priority. But 30,000 children left school last year without a single GCSE and one in three children left primary school last year unable to read, write or count properly.
Sorry isn't good enough Mr Blair. We don't believe a single word you say any more -- when we have higher taxes and failing public services.
COUNCILLOR PAUL McGURTY (Conservative) Wharfdale Close, Blackburn.
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