"Steve 1234 suffers from selective blindness. Has he not followed the saga of the Bedroom Tax and which Party tried to stop evictions by SDC? That was the Green Party, unsupported by Labour. Indeed, it was Philip who insisted that there were extra meetings to thrash out the issue, much to the annoyance of the Labour chair.
Unless Labour supporters are still using the woods, I think getting the sewers relined is probably as important to them as anyone else. And what of the work Philip has done on housing standards and fuel poverty. Do you think that might have benefited lower income people more than the better off home owners?
A cllrs job is to work in the interests of all their constituents.
But c'mon Steve, give up the pretence that the Labour Party is the party of the poor or the workers. Balls wont renounce austerity. Miliband never backs a strike even when it's been voted for by members. Their policies are Just like the Tories and Lib Dems. They are an electoral machine aiming for power through marginal seats. First past the post, status quo, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, which will it be. Boring, grey parties.."