I don't get it. In the Local Events section there is a photograph of the Friends of Marple Park in May. Fifteen people and I see four or five of the six Marple councillors (and who knows, maybe some of the others come from the group who put the LibDem leaflets through the letterboxes). I would not be so cynical as to say that they just turned up for the photo. I feel sure that most contributed a few hours voluntary work not only to practice the Big Society to replace council staff politics they are preaching but also because they are prepared to get their hands dirty as volunteers because they may not like the massive cuts any more than the rest of us but is it really true that the LibDems of Marple are pressing for withdrawal of this local initiative plus no public toilets, no Stockport in Bloom, no more carnivals, no trimming of the verges on Cross Lane/Woodville Drive, Triffids growing through and destroying the pavement of Windlehurst Road near Doodfield Stores ? Is this just Marple Park, is it attempt to cut the 'Friends of' initiatives in Stockport or is this a ConDem national initiative to make Britain a less green and less pleasant land just to put an extra few bob in the pockets of the extremely wealthy?