Split in Labour group leads to Lothian cuts

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Councillor Paul Nolan Socialist Challenge 20 August 1981 Page 4 ON 11 August the Labour group on Lothian council voted NOT to cut their budget by £26m and to defy the Tory government. By the reconvened council meeting two days later, the councillors had lost their resolve and the Labour group split.

rate support grant and the prospect of 'slipping into illegality the Labour group's singular defiance of the Tory government came to an ignominious end.

Tory councillors having walked out of the council chambers, the Labour group split 18 to 7 in favour of cutting the 81-82 budget by £15.2m.

Teachers Already, hundreds of Lothian teachers employed on short term contracts have been told not to turn up for work next week.

or the elderis Orldren and the handinao ped will not now open due to social work cur-backs.

Other cut-backs maintenance and repairs, supplies and services will lead to private sector redundancies and increased future expenditure.

George LOUIECE the Secretary of for Scotland Is shill out to blood. He will not settle for less than E30m in cuts! Defied Seven councillors with the backing of the regional Labour Party have defied the group whip and voted consistently for no CUTS.

Jimmy Burnett, one of the believes Labour group have set the Faced with a cut of E1.4m per week in their right back by voting against cuts on Tuesdas In the Lothian Region's headquarters and for them on Thurs Confuse "This is bound to conTusc and disillusion workers who put their faith in the Labour group told Socialist Challenge John Mulvey, another councillor added Some of us have always said that eventually the LATESTES would have to take the Tories on themselves! He feels thateone of the main problems Lothian's isolation. The using Lothian as a test case for their future policy of massive cuts in the rest of Britain.

The seven who have stood out against cuts will continue to tight for local government freedom But it's now obvious a

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24 April this year workers at the

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