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21/04/2012:Tory “Just Not Being Straight With The People of Church Ward About Shinfield Road”, Says Labour:
Following the meeting called at short notice on Friday night by the Shinfield Road Traffic Action Group, Labour has demanded to know why Church Ward Tory candidate Azam Janjua’s last-ditch pledge at the meeting to remove the controversial Shinfield Road traffic lights, installed while the Conservatives and LibDems were running Reading Council, is not mentioned in the Tory manifesto.
Whitley Labour Councillor Mike Orton, who spoke at the meeting, says "The Church Ward Conservative Councillors were party to the original scheme, which was implemented while they were in control, and they did nothing to sort out the problems. Labour is following through the recommendations of the expert independent report and has put in place significant improvements. Some of these are very recent, their effectiveness will have to be reviewed and further changes may have to be made, but in these tough times we can't spend money we haven't got and Azam Janjua’s last-minute personal pledge to tear out the lights and go back to square one, which would cost half-a-million pounds, just isn’t affordable or credible.”
Church Labour candidate Eileen McElligott, who could not be at the meeting as her husband had just come out of hospital, adds: "It is deeply cynical that my Conservative opponent, Azam Janjua, who was ‘Transport Advisor’ while the Tories were in power and the Shinfield Road lights were installed, has waited until the eve of the local elections before promising his constituents that the lights will be removed, something which doesn’t even figure in the Tory election manifesto that came out the previous day! Who does he think he’s kidding? Church Ward deserves better.”
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