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WAT-ER FIASCO! Kent Labour lays responsibility at the Conservatives’ door for any problems being experienced in the management of the county’s water resources. Labour Shadow Leader of KCC, Mike Eddy, said: “It’s amazing. In today’s Cabinet meeting, the Tories blamed the water companies for taking a ‘ruthlessly commercial attitude’ to the management of the county’s water resources, and said that ‘Kent will pay’. “Who was it that de-nationalised water resources in this country? The Conservatives. In fact, the person most directly responsible for implementing water privatisation was none other than Folkestone & Hythe MP Michael Howard, during his stint as Minister for Water & Planning in 1988-89. “It’s time for the Conservatives locally and nationally to take their share of the blame for the commercial exploitation of Kent’s hard-pressed water resources”. Kent Labour’s Shadow Cabinet member for the Environment, Ray Parker, added: “KCC’s Conservative Cabinet were quick to have a go at the water companies. Paul Carter blamed them for not working collectively, and Nick Chard blamed Thames Water for doing a lot of environmental damage by extracting water from Kent aquifers fifteen years ago. “It just shows that the Tories will even have a go at their mates in big business if it means getting themselves off the hook. “The Conservatives’ policies when they were last in power are still having an adverse effect on our environment and our natural resources. If they get into power again, who knows what damage they’ll do. “Michael Howard’s retiring at the next election. But his legacy of water privatisation means that even from the graveyard of politics, his spectre will loom large over the future of Kent’s water resources”. |
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