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Help us to stop Labour's police cuts!

To: John Leech MP

Crime rates in Manchester are on the rise and the Labour Party's response is to cut police numbers and police funding. More than 200 full-time officers were cut in Manchester in the past year and this figure only looks set to rise.

This isn't surprising when we aren't getting the £14m of funding the Labour government's own formula says we deserve. Even worse, we have lost £35m to Labour forces down south.

The Labour government plans to splash out on a dangerous, expensive and unnecessary ID cards scheme, while police budget deficits in Manchester over the next three years are staggering. This can only mean one thing - less bobbies on the beat!

The Lib Dems in Greater Manchester have been fighting these cuts all the way by securing a debate in Parliament on the subject, to which only one Greater Manchester Labour MP bothered to turn up.

I urge you as MP for Manchester Withington, to keep up the fight against the cuts to our force Labour are threatening us with in the coming year.

Thank you for your interest but we are no longer accepting signatures for this petition.

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