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Vaizey tables Early Day Motion on Wirral

23.01.09 | Benedicte Page

The battle over library closures in Wirral is heating up, with shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey tabling an Early Day Motion in parliament condemning the cuts.

Vaizey’s EDM notes that two of the 15 libraries marked for closure by Wirral council “serve two of the most disadvantaged communities in the UK” and calls the closures “cost-driven vandalism”.

Meanwhile authors Beverley Naidoo and Bernard Ashley are among those who have written to the secretary of state for culture Andy Burnham asking him to intervene.

Naidoo writes: “Wirral is not the only council looking to make cuts and libraries appear to be a ‘soft’ target”. She warned that library closures mean “the closure of opportunities for thousands of library users and, in particular, a cruel closing of doors to the young people in those
areas.”

Ashley calls the closures “an act of betrayal of the working class”.

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