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Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
What were the local issues four decades ago?
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Iain launches re-election campaign in Cheadle & Gatley
by Lib Dem team on 16 April, 2014
Mark Hunter MP with councillors Pam King, Keith Holloway and Iain Roberts.
With local and European elections on 22nd May, Iain launched his re-election campaign this week.
We’ve not heard anything from the other parties locally for nearly two years.
On May 22nd the choice for voters will be between Iain, who’s worked hard to fight for Cheadle & Gatley, and other parties who will find a name to go on the ballot paper but have done nothing for our local area over the last two years.
The Lib Dem team have achieved a lot in recent years: real improvements for Cheadle and Gatley despite all the spending cuts. We’ve seen new pavements in Gatley village, Gatley Green improved, Cheadle pavements and a host of smaller improvements right across the area.
The big issues we’re working on now are:
- Get our road and pavements repaired with the £100 million once-in-a-generation investment Iain has personally pushed through at Stockport Council.
- Continue working on improvements to the Kingsway junction – it’s a really tough problem, but we’ve no intention of giving up and we can make further improvements.
- Get the Tatton sorted out, whether by a CPO or the current owners coming forward with a development.
- Boosting our local shops and village centres.
- A crack-down on inconsiderate dog owners who allow their pets to foul and don’t pick it up.
- Traffic improvements in the villages, getting the A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road built, more 20mph zones where residents want them and better facilities for pedestrians and cyclists to cut the number of cars on the road.
If you want a hard-working local councillor with a proven record of getting results for local people, Iain Roberts is the only choice for Cheadle and Gatley on May 22nd.
As ever, the election will be a close fight between Iain and the Conservatives – no-one else has ever won here.
9 Comments
THA KNEW IT !…
All this posing for the camera – not to mention your lack of ‘disputation’ vis-à-vis shortcomings in this constituency – there had to be a reason !!
Not sure why you try so hard mind – the council seat more often than not be ‘fought over’ by only the ‘usual suspects’ – Cons, Liebore, LieDum.
The Cons be nowhere to be seen around here – not least online – since they lost their last councillor.
Liebore be ‘out for the count’ – they be the very antithesis of what most electors around here stand for.
LieDums – mefears they will keep things as they are – for themselves and for this constituency !
Still, we do have the comfort of the Euro vote – that should to the LieDums liking – it being PR of a kind.
Looking forward to coming fourth ? – again !
The ‘other two parties’ are not in power and have no authority to do anything locally. We have three Libdem councillors and one Libdem MP – so to say they have done nothing is but pure, unadulterated LibDem sophistry.
Your party traded its principles for power when you joined the coalition – you used to be a protest party but not any more.
And by the way – it is OUR council tax that funds everything – not the Libdems.
Bruce – that’s not the experience of Lib Dem campaigners up and down the country who are perfectly capable of getting things done even when not in power. Should opposition parties not campaign? Shouldn’t they prove themselves?
The Conservatives have not even tried. They have put out no local leaflets, attended no meetings, run no campaigns.
You rightly say that our taxes fund local spending (though in Stockport our Council Tax only funds around one third of the spending). That’s why the issue of *how* the money is spent is so important.
Leaving politics aside I really hope something can be done to make sure the local Gatley streets get something done about the pavements. I am sorry to say whereass formerly I could skip over anything I now find them quite hazardous because they are so uneven.
Hi Carolyn,
I couldn’t agree more. Our £100 million investment in relaying roads and pavements aims to solve that problem and properly relay everything that’s in poor condition.
All i can say, is remember the Students loans, Remploy Workers the most vulnerable all put out of work, the closure of the Walk in Clinic at Civic Centre,My brother losing his home of 40yrs due bedroom tax, and all these so called full time jobs rubbish all part time or zero hour contracts.So unless a alternative party puts up i will not vote, which will be for the first time. Disgusted with politicians and the way they are treating the public at large.
While welcoming the council tax freeze this year I think the 2.5% increase last year via a loophole now closed by Pickles was a disgrace.
Also I am fed up hearing about spending, there is too much public sector spending that’s why we have the large budget deficit and 1.4 T £ accumulated debt. Spending has to be cut – in my view starting with the £12B oversea aid that we borrow to then give away and who’s efficacy is to say the least questionable. How about a referendum on this subject ? No thought so – politicians would not get the “right” answer.
SMBC has the highest council tax in G Manchester and the second highest in England – that’s what I pay and that’s what I needs to be reduced.
Frederick – I totally agree – with the exception of the three freeze years SMBC always increase the rates by more than the average. Four years ago it was increased by 3.4% when the national average was something like 1.6% – and Mark Hunter boasted it was ‘less than inflation’
I would just like to say that the Lib Dems have been doing so much locally, canvassing people’s views, solving problems wherever possible, unlike the other parties that are nowhere to be seen. That alone deserves our vote! Our local councillor Iain Roberts has always gone that extra mile for local people and local issues, and I know that a lot of decent folk here appreciate that and will be voting for him. I certainly will! I urge you all to come out and vote for him in May. We need councillors like him.