Well done, Amanda!

Tremendous victory for Amanda Hack in Braunstone Town. A ray of hope on a pretty grim night.

Commiserations to our candidates who were not so successful. We really must find a way of getting round the blanket pro-Tory coverage of our main media.

Starting Election Day.  The Labour4Lutterworth Committee Rooms 07:10.  David Fish, Amanda Hack, David Gair.  Time to get your rosette on and VOTE LABOUR.

Your Local Labour Candidates for Lutterworth

Fighting to get a better deal for Lutterworth

There is no doubt what will have the biggest impact on our town in the next four years - the massive expansion up at Magna Park. The site is a huge asset to our town, bringing jobs, opportunities and prosperity.

But Harborough District Council, which receives a huge income from the Park, does very little to alleviate the inevitable problems that come with such a major site. It really is like they just don't care.

With your support on May 7 we can start to turn the situation around.

We need routeing agreements, places for the lorries to park overnight, landscaping to reduce the noise, and a bus service from the site to all our local villages to minimise car journeys to and from work.

We can't take another four years of being the bottom of everyone's agenda.

DAVID GAIR is standing in ORCHARD WARD

David has been a Town Councillor since 2008.  He has fought hard to save the De Verdon Road allotments and to secure improvements for our roads and cycle routes.  He says: "We need a strong voice at Harborough District Council that does not simply toe the party line or weakly submit to the national government agenda. Local politics should be about local people and local issues."

MIKE SUTTON is standing in SPRINGS WARD

Mike is a former Marine and a well-known local businessman.  His wife runs a shop in Church Street and their four children all work in the town. This gives Mike a vested interested in Lutterworth.  He says: "This is our town, our future, the place our granddaughter will grow up and go to school.  Harborough has ignored us for too long.  It's time to make things happen!"

SIMON TODD is standing in SWIFT WARD

Simon served in the RAF before moving to Lutterworth.  He now works for the East Midlands Ambulance Service.  For two and a half years he was our Town Crier - so if you want your voice heard at Harborough there really is no better choice.  Simon says: "Your problems are most likely my problems as we walk the same streets and share the same services. I am not afraid to fight for what is right and for what you deserve."

AMANDA HOLYOAK is standing in BROOKFIELD WARD

Having served on the Town Council for the last four years, Amanda is standing as a District Councillor because "I wash to help shape the community in which my children are growing up, and make a difference to the town in which we live." 

Amanda Hack - your Labour Candidate for South Leicestershire

Amanda's election address should be dropping through your letterbox any day now.  Congratulations to the election team - it looks great and the contents are spot on.

If yours hasn't arrived yet, here are some key points:

• We've seen massive cuts to local services - social care, children's services, school support, youth services, all either closed or cut to the bone.  The next tranche of Tory cuts will close libraries and museums.  Labour is committed to a fairer alternative.
• The NHS as we know it cannot survive five more years of Cameron.  Labour will hire 20,000 more nurses and 8000 extra GPs, funded by a clamp down on tax avoidance, a mansion tax on properties worth than £2 million, and a levy on tobacco firms.
• The cost of childcare has risen by 30% under the Tories.  Labour will provide 25 hours free childcare each week for parents with 3 and 4 year-olds.  Labour will work with primary schools to provide childcare for school-age children from 8am to 6pm, and help parents balance work and family life.

Find out more about Amanda and her campaign by visiting the constituency party's website or by following Amanda on Twitter @hack4labour.

Lutterworth Labour coffee morning with Amanda Hack, PPC

The second "Meet the candidate" coffee morning was held on Saturday, 21st March at Lutterworth town hall. Our new Labour party banner was put out, and posters were displayed on am A-board.
There was lots of interest, and Amanda was busy chatting with shoppers as they passed by. Many came in for a coffee to discuss issues further and have a chat.
At the same time, plenty of leaflets were given out, and 3 streets were canvassed.
The morning was grey, windy and bitterly cold, but undeterred by the weather, it was a very successful event.
The next Lutterworth coffee morning is on Saturday, April 25th. Further events will be held in April in Broughton Astley and Arnesby.

Pre-election events for PPC Amanda Hack in Lutterworth and S Leics

We have a timetable of events to enable local people to meet the Labour Parliamentary Candidate, Amanda Hack. They will be in various places around the County, and are as follows:

Tuesday, 17th March, 6 - 7pm, Surgery in Red Admiral, Broughton-Astley
Saturday 21st March, 10 - 12, coffee morning in Lutterworth Town Hall
Saturday 25th April, 10 - 12, coffee morning in Lutterworth town hall
Saturday, 11th April. 1030 - 12, coffee morning Arnesby village hall.

Do come along for a coffee and chat and show your support. Everyone welcome!

Your Labour Candidate for South Leicestershire

AMANDA HACK

Labour Party members in South Leicestershire have selected a local councillor to take on sitting Tory MP Andrew Robatham at the general election.

Amanda Hack, a married mum of two, represents the Thorpe Astley ward on Braunstone Town Council. 

Professionally, Amanda works as Head of Economic Development for the Asra Housing Group – a leading housing and regeneration provider, managing 13,500 homes in the Midlands and South East England.

Speaking after her selection as Labour’s choice for South Leicestershire, Amanda said: 

I’m delighted that local people have backed me to take on the Tories and LibDems in South Leicestershire.

Independent figures reveal that wages are an average of £1,600 down in real terms since 2010 as prices and inflation continue to raise faster that pay packets.

Combined with an average increase of £300 on household utility bills, hardworking people in South Leicestershire find themselves in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis.

It needn’t be like this - it’s only because of the decisions David Cameron’s government has made that people who work hard and play by the rules are so out of pocket.

Living standards for the majority have fallen in 44 of the 45 months David Cameron has been in Downing Street – all whilst the out-of-touch Tory-led government hands a £3billion tax break to the top 1% of earners by cutting the 50p income tax rate.

People are playing by the rules but not getting any better off.

Ed Miliband has committed a future Labour government to delivering an energy price freeze and introducing a Jobs Guarantee to get the million unemployed young people back to work – a government who stands up for the many, not the few.

Amanda added: “I’m looking forward to getting out on the doorsteps of South Leicestershire and making the case for Ed Miliband’s One Nation alternative here.”

South Leicestershire Constituency Labour Party member Lord Willy Bach, who serves as a Shadow Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister in the Lords, welcomed Amanda’s selection. He said: 

Amanda has a proven track record in standing up for local people – just the kind of advocate the people who have been left worse off by this government need. I look forward to working with her in the run up to the general election.

Follow Amanda's campaign on Twitter @hack4labour

Now that's a leafleting team!

 

 The first leafleting team of the campaign season, Sunday February 17 2013.  And somebody's thumb.