Cornwall's Lib Dem MPs should explain why their party's promises of £71 million in savings at Cornwall Council have proved to be as much rubbish as the county's growing waste mountain, says Jude Robinson, Labour candidate in Camborne, Redruth & Hayle. 

Jude said: "Without the promised savings, taxpayers face higher bills and savage cuts.   Government funding for Cornwall is still rising above inflation but we will not benefit because money has been squandered by the Council. 

"The LIb Dem MPs lobbied for the change to Unitary and their councillors promised £71 million savings.  Of this, they said £29 million would improve services and keep council tax down.  The rest would go on £20 million transition costs and £22 redundancy payments.

"This is the promise made in the 2009 finance leaflet delivered by the Lib Dem administration to every home in Cornwall.   

"Julia Goldsworthy is Lib Dem Local Government Spokesperson but, like the rest of them, has run for cover instead of looking into her party's disastrous handling of the Unitary issue." 

News of the vanishing savings was confirmed last week by Tory Council Leader Alec Robertson and a financial health check last October revealed that the savings were based on 'dubious and unconfirmed' work.