Hampshire County Council has an excellent record:
CONSERVATIVE HAMPSHIRE RATED TOP
COUNTY COUNCIL BY AUDIT COMMISSION
·
Council
tax increased by only 1.9% for the next two years
·
Lead
in children’s care. Provided expert help in Haringay after “Baby P” failure
·
BEST COUNTY COUNCIL IN THE LAND
WHAT WE HAVE DONE:
·
Highest Performance
·
Lowest council tax
·
Excellent value for money
DESPITE
LOWEST GOVERNMENT GRANT
·
Introduced 30mph speed reduction programmes for 106 rural
villages
·
Refurbished libraries, expanded their services and
extended opening hours
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
BY CONSERVATIVES IN HAMPSHIRE
Invested £74m a year maintaining our roads
Provided £2m extra for pothole repairs
Pioneered “20 is Plenty” to improve road safety
outside schools
Kept children safe and secure
Expanded and improved special schools
Provided 50 Community Safety Oficers
Provided 10 new nursing care homes
Increased the number of care beds from 873 to 1,436
Pioneered care programme to allow elderly to
live at home.
Established award winning Discovery Centres
Supported local communities through Councillor
budgets
Led the country in reducing landfill – down to 10%
Produced electricity from waste: enough for
50,000 homes
Increased and improved household waste recycling
centres
Amongst the best GCSE results in the country
Saved £50m by
refurbishing rather than replacing condemned offices. Halved its carbon
footprint and reduced leasing cots by increasing its capacity to provide
workspace for double the number of staff.
UKIP say many of the right things BUT THEY HAVE NO LOCAL POLICIES. They suggest that by putting them in power in Hampshire they will miraculously be able to halt immigration.
There are some who say this is the time for a Protest Vote.
I, too, am dismayed by the ambitions of the European Union and its
tightening grip on our daily lives. Unless we can return many of its powers to
the United Kingdom, I shall have no option but to vote for our withdrawal when
the time comes. I am equally opposed to Same Sex Marriage and open door
immigration. However, we should remember that the County Council has no power
over the EU or immigration, so to vote for a party concentrating on these
issues could rob you of an excellent Conservative County Council for four years
by splitting the vote in the forthcoming County Council Elections.
This County Council
Election must be about GROWING HAMPSHIRE’S ECONOMY WHILE CARING FOR ITS PEOPLE
The LibDems make many false accusations about the Conservative run council but:
Hampshire County
Council has an income of £900 million with borrowing of £500 million.
Eastleigh Borough
Council, on the other hand, has an income of £12 million while borrowing an
enormous £100 million.
AND EASTLEIGH INTEND
TO INCREASE THAT BORROWING BY £12 MILLION in order to move the civic offices
into Eastleigh centre with the following consequences:
·
It will cause massive
congestion
·
Make parking more
difficult for visitors
·
This will cause the
continued decline of the retail sector,
with more shops closing.
·
The likelihood of the
development of the existing site and, very possibly, the development of part of
Fleming Park.
One of the most important
duties of our councillors is to
explain how they are spending our money.
So
how did Eastleigh Borough Council explain the above this year?
The
Lib Dem leader, Keith House, spared exactly FIFTEEN SECONDS of his valuable time to explain it: not enough time
to explain how he was saddling them with debts of £112 million.
Godfrey Olson, the Conservative opposition
leader, proposed using a little of the income from parking charges to give up
to 30 minutes free parking to encourage shoppers back to the centre; but it was
ridiculed by the LibDems.
DON’T LET THE LIBERAL
DEMOCRATS GET HOLD OF HAMPSHIRE
Tempting as it may be to vote UKIP tomorrow it could so easily let the LibDems in.
Remember the by-election?
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