Special issue: choose your local councillors for New Brighton

New Brighton residents Labour’s candidates Darren May & Tony Pritchard to replace Pat Hackett Darren and Tony live here. Issues If elected, it means that two of your three that affect you and New Brighton OR councillors won’t live in New Brighton. affect Darren and Tony. Labour’s taking you for granted. newsNew Brighton communityline Delivered at no expense to the taxpayer

vaccination Are they taking tracker: you for granted? 47,013 Former Labour MP Ronnie Campbell: “Conservative Councillors as at 15 April work and work. Our lot were saying ‘when do we get our money?’” Following the decision of touch views but who, too often, World’s sharpest Councillor Pat Hackett to are not interested in yours. fall in cases: step down, New Brighton New Brighton has had 10 different risks having councillors Labour Councillors. How many The UK has seen cases fall who only turn up at have made a real, genuine by 97% since the peak, difference to our community? election time. thanks partly to the More people are voting for what is vaccine programme. In Over recent years, the Labour best at each election, based on Party has forgotten that votes who’ll work hardest on local France, cases are just 25% have to be earned. issues, instead of always voting lower since their peak. Too many councillors have failed for the same party or the party to understand or even listen to their parents supported. Cases per million people here - the people they Your votes at these elections were supposed to represent. Too won’t change the MP or the down to 42 often local people have been Government. But they are your treated like fools. Again, the UK is now the chance to give New Brighton two Instead, they pick candidates who active, local councillors: Darren lowest in Europe. The won’t ‘rock the boat’; people who May and Tony Pritchard. It’s time Freedom of Information Act request to delays in the EU vaccine agree with Labour’s often out of to put New Brighton first and party , January 2021 politics second. programme are hampering efforts there. Sweden had Working class voters abandoned 515 cases per million. Crime. Housing. The EU. Councils and Labour Councillors Town Hall that New Brighton Eight different pursuing and promoting their own won’t be ignored any longer. Immigration. Patriotism. causes while pay lip service to the vaccines in UK Anti-social behaviour. issues in communities like ours. If you lend two of your four votes to Darren May and Tony While three vaccines On each of these issues, opinion Pritchard, you’ll still have a Oxford-AstraZeneca, polls have shown that Labour is Labour councillor and a Labour out of touch with most people and MP. But you’ll also have two new Moderna and Pfizer- not least with traditional working councillors, from New Brighton, Biontech (157 million class voters. The voters that To send a message to Labour that who know the issues here and doses) have been secured, Labour was set up to represent. you won’t be taken for granted who aren’t afraid to speak up and five more are now in trials. Too often, we see Labour and to send a message to the challenge those in charge.

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Grown up politics means recognising when your local road repairs opponents or those in other parties have done well. Since Labour lost control of the Council in 2019, It may come as a surprise to we have been able to some residents, but Darren secure some repairs in and Tony congratulate long- serving MP, Angela Eagle, on this community but there becoming a Dame. is a backlog.

Sadly, her own party wasn’t Now, an all-party so supportive. Well known for committee of the Council being in the grip of the hard- left, the Labour Party in (which replaced the all- Wallasey REFUSED to Labour Cabinet) has congratulate their own MP on agreed to many (but not this recognition in the 2021 all) of our requests for New Years Honours. action.

Instead, Wallasey Labour This ‘Structural Maintenance Party voted to affiliate to the Programme’ will be managed by latest hard left project of If elected. Darren and Tony will make sure future repairs are better the Highways Department. than the botched job on Albion Street, overseen by Labour Jeremy Corbyn.

Over the next year, the Darren and Tony said: “This following road surfacing is typical of the toytown Then, from 2022, the Footways will also be tackled politics of the local Labour works are planned: following works are planned, in the programme, currently subject to cash and any planned for: Party. Instead of focussing • St George’s Park on what matters to you, ‘emergency works’: • Rowson Street • Hertford Drive they’re still drooling over • Coastal Drive Corbyn.” • Seabank Road • Magazine Brow • Rake Lane • Holland Road

Darren successfully Tony is well known to defended New Brighton many people in New from Labour Group Brighton. He was proposals of introducing councillor for 11 years and, Darren is an armed forces parking charges along New during that time, helped of the Tower Grounds, and veteran who grew up in Brighton's historic seafront hundreds of local residents previously a member of the New Brighton and returned for two years in a row, with and businesses with issues New Brighton Traders to settle here to start a his petitions and local news and problems in our association. For many years family after his service coverage forcing Labour to community. Tony lives Tony organised the with the RAF. As well as back down. with his wife on Seabank Christmas lights along tours of Afghanistan and Road and has also served Seabank Road. Iraq, Darren also served as He continues to support as a governor of New a Community RAF Police local residents and Brighton Primary School. During his time as a local Officer for several RAF businesses, with several councillor, Tony’s bases and their local successes in the action he’s Tony worked with collaborative approach won communities. taken. community groups to save the support of many St Peter & Paul’s, the Dome residents, including some He has since been Darren is also a passionate of Home, from closure; who usually vote Labour at employed across several supporter of our armed helped to set up the Gorse General Elections. roles in the public sector to forces veterans and hopes Millennium Green Trust and continue his public service. his appointment as a a founding trustee for over Tony was active across our He wants to use this councillor will enable him to 20 years, which is now a community all year round, experience serving as your provide a strong veteran’s pocket park. Tony has also not just at election time. local Councillor. voice within Wirral Council. been a Chair for the Friends Wirral’s Labour ‘Cabinet’ leaves 9,083 families on housing waiting list When Wirral’s failing and did nothing to start building Many of the people waiting are for New Brighton Labour Cabinet was council houses. Other councils here in New Brighton. They want to managed it though. live near their existing families, More police on the streets scrapped last year, they friends and jobs. to deter crime and yobs: Ever since Wirral Labour privatised left office with more than So far, there are 372 extra the Borough’s council housing 20 Instead of tackling this issue, 9,000 families on the police in , as part of years ago, they washed their Labour has allowed numerous the national recruitment of waiting list for housing. hands of the problem. green spaces to be sold off to 20,000 more officers. They will private developers, building There is no excuse for this - they Many families have been waiting also be given the powers they houses that are out of reach to need. failed to bid for Government cash years for suitable, decent and many people or allowing second- to build affordable new houses affordable housing. rate bedsits instead. Fixing roads and pavements: We will continue to lobby for a As residents of New fair share of the Town Hall’s Darren and Tony: Brighton, Darren May budget for repairs. This means and Tony Pritchard working with residents and also cleaning up in reporting pot holes. are constantly New Brighton! walking the local Saying ‘No’ to more HMOs and bedsits area. Wherever they Decent housing should be for find an issue with fly- the many, not the few. Too often labour has given the green light tipping and ‘grot to bedsits, most recently on spots’ they take the Albion Street.

initiative to report it to Protecting our green spaces the council for action. including The Dips: This means using the powers They also work with local the Council and police have to deal with the yobs, while also residents and businesses all protecting these sites from year round to help report development. issues and chase the council up for completion. Investing in our shopping centres: Darren and Tony previously Bringing empty premises back helped residents scale back into use, supporting the the overdevelopment of the old independent shops in our Tavern site when that went community and keeping parking free in New Brighton through planning.

Since work finished on site, the entryway off Magazine Avenue was partially ripped up by the developers and has failed to be put right after completion of the new apartments.

Darren and Tony are currently working with the council to get the developers back to put right the damage caused. Recently, Darren and Tony have supported residents in dealing with dangerous waste dumped in the entryways of There has been no word from Manville Road and behind Rake Lane and Magazine Avenue. Labour on any of these issues. Requests from residents to Labour for action were ignored.

Restart grants for shops £500 boost for Working More families getting Extra £200 million for and businesses: Tax Credits: help with childcare costs Wirral Council

We continue to help shops and Mums and dads in working There has been a five-fold The Council has, so far, received local businesses to get the help households that receive tax increase in the number of families £200 million additional cash to they need, including the credits may be eligible for a new in New Brighton and Wallasey support the Borough through the Government’s new Restart Grants. one-off payment of £500. HMRC using their Tax-Free Childcare pandemic. This includes money We are also pushing for the extra will contact people to confirm accounts to pay for their childcare for families, local businesses, care cash for ‘discretionary’ business they are eligible. For those who costs. There are now 465 families homes, schools and vulnerable support in Wirral be as flexible as are, payment will be direct to taking part, up from just 85 groups such as the homeless or possible. bank accounts by 23 April 2021. families three years ago. clinically most at risk.

Currently, all your Special Report: City Council under investigation councillors, your MP and the Metro Mayor are Labour. A vote for Darren and Tony will bring much Council’s ‘toxic culture of needed balance to our local politics.

intimidation and If you lend your vote to Darren May and Tony Pritchard, they will:

bullying’ exposed. Listen to your views: Through regular surveys, doorstep conversations and contact. £100m lost. Keep you informed: In 2010, Labour constituency in Merseyside, with Darren May said: “This is what With regular newsletters and the exception of . happens when Labour has letters, delivered by volunteers gained a majority on Now, following concerns over absolute control with little or no and not paid for by the taxpayer. Liverpool City how Labour is operating, opposition. They lose touch and particularly with investors and start thinking they are Work with others: Council. Two years developers, an independent untouchable. Whether that’s with other later, they gained a investigation has started to councillors in the Town Hall, and reveal what’s been going on. Tony Pritchard added: “Lack of residents in our community. majority here in opposition and challenge means Wirral. As the reported, decisions aren’t questioned, Repay your support: this includes a ‘toxic culture of while councillors keep their By not putting their own views The introduction of an elected intimidation’ at the top of the heads down, unwilling to above yours, by not claiming City Mayor for Liverpool in 2012 council, coupled with whistle question their own party expenses and by voting for what and, five years later, a ‘Metro blowers who were left in fear colleagues. is best for our community, not as Mayor’, covering Liverpool as and audit trails of documents “To those of us who any political party tells them to. well as Wirral, Knowsley, St dumped in skips. Helens and Sefton, cemented remember Militant in the Labour’s grip. It is also estimated that at 1980s, the current situation least £100 million has been in Merseyside will set alarm The General Election in 2019 lost by the cash strapped bells ringing.” saw Labour win every council.

Your choice at the council elections in New Brighton: Local The Green Liberal Labour Party: Conservatives: Party: Democrats:

Currently all your Currently the only Challenging Labour No longer the force councillors, the MP, realistic alternative in and, they once were and the Metro Mayor now, and struggling to break to Labour in this through in elections. and the Police area. . Commissioner are No Liberal Democrat has Tony Pritchard served for Too far behind to win in Labour. New Brighton, the been elected in this 11 years as local constituency for more Their most well known councillor and earned a Greens have, however, councillor, Pat Hackett, earned the support of than 45 years. reputation for speaking resigned in September. up for New Brighton. former Labour voters for While they attract sticking to their values of ‘protest votes’, they are One of their remaining Like Tony, armed forces taxing the rich, climate not a serious contender councillors is from veteran Darren May action and being pro-EU. locally. Birkenhead. lives in New Brighton. Both Green candidates You will, however, see They have chosen not to You’ll see their have either given their the addresses of their give their addresses on addresses on the ballot address on the ballot two candidates on the the ballot paper, so you paper. They live here. paper or are known to ballot paper. They live only know they live be local residents. here somewhere in Wirral.