Thursday May 2 is YOUR opportunity to vote Lib Dem for a positive change of county council administration.

What have the Tories done with YOUR hard-earned money?

A recent OFSTED report has placed Kent primary schools among the worst in the country for the 4th year running.

Of 141 councils in England, Kent was rated 131st.

Another 100 KCC staff are expected to lose their jobs from this April. This is on top of the huge council reorganisation which has seen over 1,600 people lose their jobs.

This includes huge pay-offs to senior staff, investments in companies that went wrong, and spending on pet projects like Kent TV which never paid off.

Having sent one Chief Executive on his way with a payment of £408,000, they then appointed another only to decide two years later to do away with the position at a further cost of £420.000.

Another £7,400 a year is being paid to ‘Locality Board’ chairmen when these are currently little more than talking shops.

A further £250,000 is being written off on just one of the County Council’s failed companies.

Some £4.5 million has gone on expensive consultants, while payments have been made to the wrong bank accounts, some of which will never be recouped.

Remember also the money KCC put in Icelandic accounts which then went belly up with the financial crisis and were frozen.

Meanwhile, front-line services are being cut, roads and pavements badly need mending, but the media department is still hiring staff.

The Conservative-run County Council has money for spin but not for essential public services like libraries.

Isn’t it time for a change from four years of Tory waste and failure at County Hall in Maidstone?

VOTE LIB DEM on Thursday May 2

Polling stations are open from 7am to 10pm