Local Government cuts

Medway families, the elderly and the vulnerable are targeted the hardest by the Conservative cuts in local government funding. We will suffer a 3.5% cut in funding

The Tories have targeted the middle class for their cuts in an attempt to gerrymander resources to safe Tory seats.

Whilst Medway will have to cut 3.5%. Tory safer seats are given priorities over our towns. Dorset gets a 0.25% increase in funding and Windsor and Maidenhead, Poole, West Sussex, Wokingham, Richmond upon Thames and Buckinghamshire all get cuts of 1% or below.

This is blatant gerrymandering of funding by the Conservative Party against the people of Medway.

The council settlement came amid a flurry of funding announcements today as the government was set to bury bad news

Cuts also include

• Each of the 43 England and Wales police forces will see a 5.1% cut in funding next year and a 6.7% reduction in 2012-13. This is a direct attack on bobbies on the beat and will lead to a rise in crime across Medway.

Instead Tories want to spend millions on elected police commissioners which will see funding gerrymandered away from Medway to Tory-shire seats in mid-Kent.

• Next year's budget of £834m for highways maintenance will reduce to £707m by 2014-15 – a 15% drop in spending on road repairs.

Instead Tories will now cut funding for residential road repairs which will leave your road pot-holed. Coupled with Medway Conservative waste on the Chatham two-way system which cost £2.5m this is a slap in the face to the motorist.

•The education budget for England for next year is revealed, including the new "pupil premium". However, the education department confirmed it could no longer deliver its promise of a 0.1% real-terms year-on-year increase after the Office for Budget Responsibility revised the inflation figures up, meaning that the £3.6bn cash increase would now mean a marginal cut in budgets.

Medway is about to feel the brunt of Tory cuts.

Whilst safe Tory areas suffer, the poorest areas and Medway suffer under this government.