Tory administration gives up on election pledges

Two of the pledges made by Kay Cutts and her team of puppets before the election were to scrap the tram (to please Cllr Jackson) and to scrap the Gedling bus plug (to please subsidy junkie, Laughton). Immediately after the election they found that they couldn't scrap the tram and went back on that pledge. I revealed here how it would cost £7.5m to remove the Gedling bus plug and I understand that as Bruce Laughton has staked his reputation on this promise and is standing to be an MP; Kay Cutts was still willing to do whatever had to be done to fund this. She even stood by the decision when a high profile visit by a cabinet minister bearing £17m in funding was cancelled at the last minute (see here for story). However, she has now had to admit defeat. The Evening Post announced today that the bus plug will stay.

This rather shows how hollow Tory promises and especially those made by the subsidy junkie Bruce Laughton and the second hand car salesman Jackson really are. The people who voted for Laughton on the strength of this pledge must now be as hopping mad as those who voted for Kerry and Jackson in Chilwell.