{"id":5006,"date":"2012-12-17T18:51:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2012-12-18T23:12:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T23:12:50","slug":"tory-peterborough-targets-meals-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/tory-peterborough-targets-meals-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory Peterborough Targets Meals On Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Lisa Forbes today 17th December 2012 condemned a proposal in the Peterborough City Council\u2019s review of social care provision to increase charges for Meals on Wheels from \u00a33.20 to \u00a35.20.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lisa says:<\/p>\n<p>I beg every decent Tory Councillor to oppose this proposal to make frail and vulnerable pensioners pay the price for George Osborne\u2019s economic mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>By the next election in 2015, the Coalition will have slashed the City Council budget by 28%. Already there have been cuts equivalent to \u00a374.74 per head of the population. Meanwhile, he has reduced the tax bill for high earners.<\/p>\n<p>This is cruel and unjust. Look at another Tory constituency, Basingstoke and Deane, where the cut is only \u00a34.44 per head although there are many fewer disadvantaged people.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t understand why Stewart Jackson has failed to protest about Peterborough being hit so hard. I ask him now to urge his party to reject this proposal at once and begin to campaign with me for a fair local government budget settlement for Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p>============<\/p>\n<p>Press Release 17th December 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Lisa Forbes today 17th December 2012 condemned a proposal in the Peterborough City Council\u2019s review of social care provision to increase charges for Meals on Wheels from \u00a33.20 to \u00a35.20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[485,62,48],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc-radio-peterborough","tag-lisa-forbes","tag-peterborough-city-council","tag-stewart-jackson-mp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}