For more information on these press releases, please contact Richard Fuller on 07834 098904  or richard@bedfordconservatives.com

 

George Osbourne and Richard Fuller launch the election campaign in Bedford Town Centre on April 6th

 

Everyone across Bedford & Kempston can get involved to solve Britain’s problems

 

Big government, high taxes and politicians up in Whitehall won’t solve Britain’s problems, Richard Fuller, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate said this week, as he welcomed David Cameron’s impressive blueprint for a Conservative Government. Its key message is that everyone across Bedford & Kempston should get together and get involved to solve Westminster’s broken politics, fix Britain’s broken society and get our local economy moving.

 

The Conservative plans include:

• Supporting new entrepreneurs, helping the unemployed back into work, and stopping Labour’s new jobs tax.
• Letting public sector workers set up co-operatives to improve the services they provide.
• Giving voters the right to sack MPs found guilty of serious wrong-doing.
• Allowing parents and local community groups to open up and run new schools to raise standards.
• Helping first-time buyers own their own home through a permanent reduction in stamp duty for homes up to £250,000, and giving social tenants across Bedford & Kempston an equity stake in their home for being good neighbours, to help them get a foot on the housing ladder.
• Empowering local residents to stop high council tax rises.
• Giving a locally elected representative responsibility for police budgets and strategies for Bedfordshire Police, so that people’s priorities for tackling crime come first.
• Letting local people save valued community services like local pubs, parks or post offices from closure, and help supporter groups buy into football clubs.
• Showing how Whitehall and Bedford Borough Council spend your money, by publishing detailed figures on spending and contracts online for all to see.

 

Richard said:

“We won’t get Bedford & Kempston’s economy moving with Gordon Brown’s jobs tax – we need to help local firms create jobs. We won’t solve our social problems with more big government from Labour – we need to build a Big Society where families are strong and our communities are safe. And we’ll never change politics if we leave it all to Westminster politicians – we need to give people across Bedford & Kempston real power and control over their lives.

 

“At this election, local residents face a choice: five more years of Gordon Brown’s tired government making things worse, or Conservatives who will get the country moving.”

 

The Conservative Party’s general election manifesto was published on 13 April.
http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Manifesto.aspx

Let Local Leaders Lead

 

Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, Richard Fuller, welcomed Shadow Minister for Universities and Skills, David Willetts to Bedford to visit Community LD Ltd., one of the town’s leading training enterprises.

 

Richard said:

“Community LD under the leadership of Rakesh Ram and his team provide a clear example of why the next Government needs to change the model of top down directives and bureaucratic box-ticking.   Local organisations know local needs and if they are given more freedom to exercise local judgement, we can all benefit from the inspiration and passion of local leaders like Rakesh.”

 

Community LD Ltd have recently had to cope with the re-organisation of the former Learning and Skills Council, which was closed at the end of March to be replaced by the Skills Funding Agency and the Young People’s Learning Agency. Richard commented:

“This reorganisation appears only to have created frustration and confusion with very limited benefit to the young people it was supposed to help” .

 

For more information contact:

Richard Fuller on 07834 098904 / richard@bedfordconservatives.com

Laura Palmieri on 07803 585699 / lp@web-translations.co.uk

 

 

Richard Fuller& David Willetts with Rakesh Ram, Centre Manager & Philip Iwaniw, Apprenticeships Coordinator at Learn Direct, Bromham Road