And now - back in Lutterworth

Have you not voted Labour yet? These people have, and look how happy they are! In Lutterworth and villages, vote for DAVID GAIR, in Broughton and villages, vote for SANDRA PARKINSON, and in Bruntingthorpe (that's all the other villages including Fleckney) you need to be voting for LIZ MARSH.

And the same team in Broughton Astley this morning

I'm thinking there may be a theme here...

Labour4Lutterworth in Gilmorton this lunchtime

Support your local Labour candidates on Thursday

“I am delighted to support these three excellent candidates and urge local residents to vote for them on Thursday May 4.”

 

WILLY BACH, who is your Leicestershire Police & Crime Commissioner and a local resident.

DAVID GAIR - LUTTERWORTH DIVISION

SANDRA PARKINSON - BROUGHTON DIVISION

LIZ MARSH - BRUNTINGTHOPE DIVISION

Your LABOUR candidate for Lutterworth Division

DAVID GAIR

I have lived in this Division – in Lutterworth and Claybrooke Magna – for 33 years. My children were educated locally and now both live and work locally. In 8 years as a Town Councillor I have tried to save the allotments and further the Eastern bypass. I opposed the removal of the grant to our Citizens Advice Bureau.

Taking a stand on major changes I am active on the major issues – Magna Park, Lutterworth East and the reorganisation of local health services. We all use Magna Park one way or another, but the massive developments proposed are too much. Even partial development requires infrastructure way beyond anything that exists or is proposed. Lutterworth Labour wants a strategic overview of the whole region so that development goes to appropriate areas with the proper levels of infrastructure,.

Lutterworth East We opposed the building of more housing between the town and Magna Park and supported the development of Lutterworth East. Only Lutterworth East will generate the correct level of social provision, such as primary schools, and secure the Eastern Bypass.

A stronger voice The County Council, which is supposed to take the strategic overview, does nothing under the Conservatives. We desperately need a stronger voice at County Hall if we are to secure the funding share we deserve to improve the quality of life in Lutterworth, Bitteswell, the Claybrookes and Ullesthorpe.

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." 

June Branch meeting update, and forth coming Social events!!

The June meeting was even more lively than expected. It`s often the case that even the simplest agenda item or passing comment turns into a lively discussion and an impromptu debate on topical affairs! This was the case on Tuesday, when interesting conversations led to us needing to be thrown out by the caretaker as closing time approached!

An Arnesby Parish council decision prompted debate on the issue of windfarms. We are as a Branch very much in favour of clean energy, but are keen that energy initiatives and wind turbines are erected in a co-ordinated manner and in the most appropriate places to get the best wind. We decided to ask the GC to write to HDC and LCC to ask what their policy is on this.

David Fish, our Membeership secretary, brought a Branch membership record of the last 10 years. We notices a sad decline after the Iraq war, then a sudden increase after May 2010 - what could have caused that, we wondered??!!

Roger, our IT Wizard, has made further improvements to our Blog site and added a permanent email address for the Branch. He also proposed we get a phone, to further increase our availability to the public. We decided to do this as soon as we have more funds...(any funds, that is!) NB Pleasant, painless fund raising events will be taking place this Summer - see below.

Our official speaker for the evening was David Gair, Secretary of S Leics GC. He was talking about the environment, but because of previous discussions was allowed only 7 minutes to explain how humans have decimated the globe over the past 100000 years, but on a positive note have shown an ability to rectify their misdemeanors if they decide to do so, as in the case of CFCs, which was modified within 5 years. He did a masterly job in the 7 mins available, and we will continue this discussion at the next Branch meeting!

SOCIAL EVENTS THIS SUMMER
1.Tea in the garden, Sunday, 23rd June, 3 - 5, At Elaine and Peters in Arnesby, £3 entrance. Tea, cakes, book and plant stalls, raffle and a speaker.
2. Lutterworth Feast Day. Saturday, July 6th, 11 - 4. We will have a stall, with a Quiz written by Willy Bach, and any funds raised will be donated to the Lord Mayors Appeal.
3. BBQ Mikes garden. Delicious food, cooked by Mike. Saturday, 13th July, 2pm. £10 a head. Hamper to be raffled, organised by Sandra. Tickets from secretary, David Fish, davidfishcf@msn.com

See you all soon!

Many Thanks

I would like to say thank you to all of you who put so much hard work into the Lutterworth Division. It was quite humbling to see people coming in from other divisions to help in what was not, on previous results, a marginal. Though we did have high hopes. Then there were those who, after a hard day in this division, went off to help elsewhere. Thanks also to our home team who knew, at times, they were leafleting in Tory heartlands but got on with the job. It felt good to be part of such a dedicated team.

Good luck tomorrow!

DAVID GAIR

 Standing in LUTTERWORTH DIVISION

to press for a proper bypass to the east of the town.

 

SANDRA PARKINSON

Standing in BROUGHTON DIVISION

to make your roads safer

ELAINE CARTER

Standing in BRUNTINGTHORPE DIVISION

to win funding for rural communities

 

 

All your LABOUR CANDIDATES are campaigning to save your libraries, services to schools, and grants to essential voluntary and community organisations from FURTHER TORY CUTS.

 

Good luck to all in tomorrow's County Council elections.  Voting takes place from 7am to 10pm, so they must be expecting crowds.

 

If you want to know what these elections mean nationally, there's a fascinating article here.



Swiftway Polling Station Closed!!!

The polling station at the Swiftway Centre is not going to be available on 2nd May. Instead voters will have to make their way to The Pavilion on the Coventry Road Recreation Ground. Harborough DC did not realise that the building was not in a fit state to use until they came to deliver the ballot boxes for storage.
Obviously this could affect voting; particularly for the less mobile.
HDC are reissuing polling cards, and there will be extensive information on the day redirecting voters. This, however, is not good enough and we are to press them to provide transport; something that they suggested that we should do. If you live in the area and need help, let us know, or, if you are in a position to assist someone else we would be very grateful.
We can win this, but it will be close and every vote will be crucial. Please help us get the vote out and send this government a message that crushing the poorest whilst giving an easy ride to the most wealthy is not acceptable.

Canvassing gets underway in Lutterworth

A very good morning's canvassing in the region of Riverside and Misterton Roads. Many thanks to Elaine, Peter and Sandra for their efforts. Last week's cuts, benefits for the poor and tax for the wealthy, have clearly struck a chord, as have the Chancellors outrageous linking of benfits and the Philpott case. There is a general sense of how unfair this is, and we need to demonstrate to people that Labour is the best alternative.

Locally there is some amazement that we have new footpaths in Church Street whilst the town suffers increasing, and dangerous, levels of traffic pollution. A bit like giving the bridge of the Titanic a lick of paint. Labour, of course, had a solution for this and was ignored. Lutterworth is not even mentioned in future traffic plans, and there is certainly no evidence of preparing a bid for some of the money that is going to become available for major infrastucture projects.

Lutterworth Labour team ready to go!!

The Lutterworth Labour Team is at the ready for the County Council Elections in May! Our first leaflet has been distriuted, and the second is printed and ready for delivery. Canvassing tomorrow, no matter what the weather!! Good luck to:

David Gair, standing in Lutterworth, (on the far right, ha ha!)
Sandra Parkinnson, standing in Broughton Astley, (out delivering)
Elaine Carter, standing in Bruntingthorpe, (taking the photo!)

County Council candidates

It was a special open GC meeting at Broughton on Tuesday night, devoted to the upcoming County elections.  Main speaker was Nick Brown, former County Councillor and current constituency campaigns organiser, who reminded us of the hard fact that we must be targeted and disciplined to win anything in South Leicestershire.  But it can be done and here, on the right in the picture (the only time the phrase 'on the right' can ever be applied to her) is Braunstone County Councillor Jo Fox.  Labour is standing in every seat in the constituency and these are our nine candidates.

It was a great meeting and what promises to be a successful campaign got off to a great start last Sunday with twenty-odd out on the streets of Enderby Meridian.

Branch Speakers and Discussions

The Branch has had a number of excellent speakers at our monthly meetings so far this year.

In February we had a discussion on the merits and de-merits of AV voting, led by Branch member Roger Wood; in March, a lively talk entitled "The Watergate Babies" on American politics was given by David Morgan of Milton Keynes. In April, a sombre discussion on the recent Tory cuts was led by Willy Bach. In June there was a thought provoking session on Climate Change, introduced by David Gair.

Branch members also attended a Constituency meeting in June to discuss the document "Refounding Labour" and send our Branch and Constituency views to the National Executive of the Party.

The Branch has further speakers lined up for Autumn meetings, on aspects of Housing and Education.