The Liberal Democrats were the only opposition party to produce a budget, but Labour and Conservative councillors rejected it even though it contained:

• More help for Voluntary Organisations
• Better youth services
• Backing for regeneration in the Upper Calder Valley
• Support for recreation and the countryside, and
• Proposals to bring decision-making closer to you – the people affected by those decisions

This could have been achieved for the same Council Tax rise the Lab/Con deal, but without the cuts in services.