Dear Sir,
In response to John Armstrong’s letter of the 6th September. Thank you for pointing out that I and my Lib Dem colleagues have been delivering leaflets across the whole of the Great Aycliffe area. 12500 leaflets!
Our concerns are very specific and very local. That both the Town Council and Durham County Council’s Labour politicians have let down residents.
We pay one of the highest council taxes in the entire country here in Aycliffe. Yet up the road in Chester-le-Street where the Labour Council leader lives they get the same services but pay an average of £240 less council tax.
Newton Aycliffe deserves better, which is why the Liberal Democrats will be fighting hard right through to the 2021 local elections to end decades of Labour control in our town and county.
The Conservatives are no better than Labour here, their two County Councillors live miles away and are also councillors in Darlington with one raking in over £30,000 in taxpayer funded allowances.
Join me and help us get the change that Newton Aycliffe needs.
Michael Stead
Lib Dem Candidate
