Time for Change in Prince's Ward

7.28.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Sun 3rd May 2009

Labour councillors make YOU pay more in Council Tax, rent and charges. But they voted themselves a £450,000 a year pay rise - paid from YOUR Council Tax. Our area's absentee Labour councillor even grabbed over £10,000 a year for himself - despite living full-time 100 miles away in Bristol!

• Labour broke their promise to limit Council Tax to rises in pay. Instead they gave us London's biggest tax rises for two years running.

• Labour's 17% rent rise is the biggest ever in Lambeth! And there are huge Estate Charges for cleaning, CCTV, grounds maintenance and concierges - even when the service is just rubbish!

• Labour Lambeth doubled parking charges - even for low polluting cars. Care charges are the highest in London. Leisure centre charges are up and they even planned to make you pay to have bulky rubbish collected!

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Time to Sweep Away Labour Failure

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John Roberts has been an active local campaigner for over 15 years - now he'll fight for us as our new Councillor.

• Labour have cut money for Tenant Managed Estates like the Ethelred year after year. JOHN ROBERTS has been a 'resident member' of Ethelred Tenants Management Organisation right from the start in 1999! He works with other Estate residents to fight Labour Lambeth's cuts.

• JOHN ROBERTS served as an independent member of the Metropolitan Police Authority. He worked with our local police to allocate funding for additional police officers in Princes ward, after the string of violent attacks and rise in crime.

• JOHN ROBERTS is a member of Friends of Spring Gardens. He helped save the open space when Labour wanted to build an indoor ski centre on it! JOHN also got funding to put the mobile police station there after a rise in attacks around the area.

• JOHN ROBERTS has been a board member of the Kennington Association since 2006. He fundraises for schemes like the "Secret Santa" and helps campaigns to make Kennington Cross more than just a road junction - like the Arts-Lav plan and the 'Tree of Hope' plan to improve the pavement area outside St Anselm's church.

• The Congestion Charge cuts our community in two! JOHN ROBERTS fought alongside Kennington people for a "buffer zone" discount for residents just outside the Zone. But Labour would not listen.

• For 7 years, JOHN ROBERTS was Chair of the Trustees of Vauxhall City Farm. His strong leadership helped save it from closure two years ago and secure the Farm's long term future.

• Labour tried to close our local Durning Library. Campaigner JOHN ROBERTS helped the Friends of Lambeth Libraries fight to save it! In the end Labour had to back down.