COUNCIL chambers descended into farcical scenes at a heating meeting where the deputy leader walked out during discussions for a new publication listing disabled services.

Tory leader Cllr Diana Coad called for the council to fund a printed publication of services listing what is available to the town’s vulnerable and disabled - after Slough CVS had stopped printed hard copies in 2012 due to cost restraints.

But the Slough Tory party was slammed as ‘shoddy’ by councillors from the ruling Labour party after it tabled a last-minute amendment to its motion.

The party was accused of not doing its homework with Labour declaring Slough CVS - the provider for disabled services in Slough - is already working on a new publication, which will be sent to services for them to print out.

Council leader Rob Anderson said: “This could have been sorted out if someone just rang Slough CVS.” And commissioner Sabia Hussain said she would be happy to raise it at a workshop this week for voluntary services, but noone had ever mentioned it to her.

It sent the parties into a slanging session for nearly an hour as various amendments to the motion were filed and discussed. The bickering went back and forth before Cllr Ted Plenty, Labour, stood up and said: “I’ve lost 40 minutes of my life. We are going round in circles. I’m in danger of leaving.” And just a few minutes later Cllr James Swindlehurst, deputy leader of the Labour-run council, took his iPad under his arm and strolled out of the meeting, saying ‘night’ as he exited the room in The Centre. He had earlier launched a tirade on the Tories, saying: “After 10 years I thought you would have got the hang of it. This makes you look shoddy. If I wasn’t so aversed to wearing a blue rosette I should go over there and help them.” The heated argument was brought to a close when Tory Cllr Wal Chahal said: “There are people out there suffering and we are here laughing. How embarrassing. I feel really embarrassed. Let’s move this forward and do something for the disabled people of Slough.” Cllr Coad added: “I’m ashamed. All I wanted to do was do something for my friends and people who I work with and we are prevented from doing this by this rabble [Labour] who act like everything is fine.” The Labour cllrs then voted through their amendment which would ‘welcome that Slough CVS is working on production of a printed publication of disability services to provide clear and concise information on where to go to find disability products’.