HCC Conservatives: Unrepentant over Millions of Pounds of Taxpayers Money Down the Drain

At Tuesday's meeting of Hertfordshire County Council the Liberal Democrats demanded an apology for the money wasted in the New Barnfield waste fiasco.

Despite admitting the loss of "a few million", top Tory councillors remain unrepentant at millions of pounds of taxpayers money being wasted on the controversial, unpopular and now rejected New Barnfield plan for a massive waste disposal incinerator in the Green Belt, next to a housing estate and with inadequate road access.

Lib Dem County Councillor Hatfield South, Paul Zukowskyj who proposed the motion commented, "HCC Conservatives need to apologise for not listening to the six thousand people who objected to this plan back in 2007, and all the local taxpayers who have had to foot a bill of millions and millions of pounds as the council tried to defend the indefensible.

"The meeting saw the usual suspects trying to defend this disastrous plan while the Conservative back benches remained sullen and unrepentant throughout."

County Councillor St Albans South, Sandy Walkington also commented saying "We now need to develop a sensible and environmentally responsible alternative to deal with our household waste. To add insult to injury as well as wasting millions of pounds, we now seem to be told that there is no plan B"

At the end of a heated discussion Conservatives refused to apologise or reflect on how they could learn from this sorry catalogue of events.