Lambeth Lib Dems block new school

Embittered Lib Dems have turned on Lambeth’s schoolchildren after losing the council elections last May

Parents are outraged by the latest Lib Dem attempt to delay a desperately-needed new school from opening. While the Lib Dems and Tories were in charge at the town hall, up to 500 children a year were left without a place in any local secondary school. The Labour Government stepped in with an offer of £25 million to build a new school to solve the crisis. But incompetent Lib Dems dithered for three years and refused to secure a site where the school could be built – leaving local kids out of school.

Delighted parents won new hope after residents voted Labour in May’s council elections. Labour councillors quickly got to work and agreed within weeks that the new school would be built on Shakespeare Road in Herne Hill. But with work about to start, bitter Lib Dems waded in with a bureaucratic ploy to DELAY the new school. They STOPPED the decision going ahead with a rarely used town-hall procedure, risking a further year’s delay. Angry mum Kirsty McHugh asked: “What have the Lib Dems got against our kids? They’re playing political games when they should be working with Labour to get this school built as quickly as possible.”

STOP PRESS: Now the Tories have been at it too! Tory councillor Irene Kimm went along to Lambeth’s Planning Committee and argued that the new Elmgreen secondary school in West Norwood should NOT get the go-ahead for building work to begin. It looks like the old Tory-Lib Dem coalition that did so much damage when they ran the Council are keeping up the bad work together in opposition too!

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