{"id":149,"date":"2013-03-22T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=149"},"modified":"2013-03-22T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:25:40","slug":"two-year-tax-freeze-heads-tory-manifesto-for-gloucestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Two year tax freeze heads Tory Manifesto for Gloucestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Conservatives councillors and candidates gathered at Shire Hall today to launch their manifesto for this year\u2019s Gloucestershire County Council elections.\u00a0 The flagship pledge is a promise to freeze council tax increases for another two years, alongside pledges to give \u00a350,000 to each county councillor to spend on community sports facilities, and moves to bring more jobs and businesses into Gloucestershire. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Cllr Mark Hawthorne, Conservative Leader of Gloucestershire County Council, commented:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cWhen Labour and the Liberal Democrats ran Gloucestershire County Council they put council tax up every single year.\u00a0 In 2003, they put it up by 13% in a single year.\u00a0 The Conservatives, in contrast, have frozen council tax for the last three years &#8211; and if we\u2019re elected again, we\u2019ll freeze it for at least the next two. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Cllr Ray Theodoulou, Cabinet Member for Resources, commented:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cPeople just can\u2019t afford big council tax hikes anymore.\u00a0 We need a well, run council, that delivers the services people, particularly for the most vulnerable \u2013 but doesn\u2019t do that by sticking up council tax every year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives councillors and candidates gathered at Shire Hall today to launch their manifesto for this year\u2019s Gloucestershire County Council elections.\u00a0 The flagship pledge is a promise to freeze council tax increases for another two years, alongside pledges to give \u00a350,000 to each county councillor to spend on community sports facilities, and moves to bring more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}