WEST WOLDS LABOUR PARTY Your Labour Candidates CAMPAIGNING ON LOCAL ISSUES …for the many, not the few East Riding of Richard Bryon Michele Jones Catherine Minnis Council Elections I have lived in the East I have lived in the East I have spent most of Riding most of my life Riding for 16 years. my life in Yorkshire. Thurs 2nd May 2019 – Polls open 7am to 10pm and in since Both of my children went As a secondary school 1971. I worked locally to schools in Fangfoss teacher and mother for all that time doing and Pocklington. I worked of five, I understand various jobs. Ten years in the NHS, in the dilemmas faced YOUR POCKLINGTON on Pocklington Town and North Yorkshire, by working parents and Council taught me how before joining Sainsbury’s I share the hopes and PROVINCIAL LABOUR CANDIDATES Local Government works. in Pocklington. I now fears for the future I volunteer on Greengrass work for UNISON. I love of the next generation. Recycling Group which working for a trade My special focuses recycles garden waste union, and, fighting to are Education, Mental from Sherbuttgate Estate. preserve public services Health Provision and I have campaigned on is something I feel Gender Equality. As an bus transport, retaining strongly about. active member of the Sheltered Housing local Labour Party, I am in a local community wardens in Pocklington I have campaigned for choir, The Forgotten and Stamford Bridge, eating disorder services, Voices and help out, and affordable housing housing, education and when I can, at the Peoples ✔ ✔ ✔ on the new housing particular rural issues. Richard Bryon Michele Jones Catherine Minnis Pantry, a food bank. developments. Inside this leaflet are details regarding the issues we care about and stand for. We can’t promise to deliver on all the things we want because we are realists. 47 out of the 67 Councillors are Tories and East Yorkshire No to Full Sutton prison plans is one of the safest Conservative Councils in the country. Labour members have campaigned against current It is time for a change and LABOUR can make a difference. plans for a new 1470 place category C prison at We will campaign for a better life, and a fairer share of Council Full Sutton. This will be a development too far. expenditure throughout the Pocklington Provincial area. We will Stamford Bridge is already a bottleneck. With new challenge the powers that be and hold the Council to account for the housing developments in Stamford Bridge, roads and decisions they make. Turn to the back page to read about us. public transport are already poor. Large numbers of extra journeys by prison staff and prisoners on day release will make transport through Stamford Bridge intolerable. TIME FOR CHANGE – VOTE LABOUR You have 3 votes Promoted by Richard Bryon on behalf of West Wolds Labour both at 15, Betterton Court, Pocklington, YO42 2ET • Printed by G.T. Graphics, Pocklington Industrial Estate, Pocklington West Wolds westwoldslabour York YO42 1NR • Interested in joining us? Contact [email protected] Any questions? Contact us: 4 Labour Party @gmail.com West Wolds Labour Party newsletter Council Elections Affordable homes for all Increase police Fracking? Labour aims for ✔ numbers No thanks Everyone able to afford a home: Labour action ✔  a quarter of new houses built to be low cost. Your local Labour Police and Crime  an increase in the number of social houses Commissioner, Keith Hunter, has for rent. listened to your concerns and is:  employing 400 more police  a good mix of affordable 1 and 2 bedroom officers. homes to be built alongside larger houses.  reopening local police stations around East Yorkshire including Conservatives have reduced the number built ✖ We believe fracking is a danger to in Pocklington. our environment and will not meet Labour action ✔  making the Police more our future energy needs. responsive to what communities  campaigned to protect sheltered housing schemes in Pocklington and say they need. Labour aims for ✔ .  opposed planning permission for large new developments that do not  reductions in pollution. include a mix of low-cost houses.  opposing planning applications for fracking in East Yorkshire. Protect rural bus services Protect OUR Schools – Labour aims for ✔ Conservatives have cut N.H.S. a priority  Publicly funded bus services bus services to villages for Labour serving rural areas to protect ✖ Labour action ✔ against rural isolation. and rural areas Labour created the N.H.S. We have: Labour aims for ✔ Labour action ✔  campaigned locally against N.H.S.  reversing the reduction in Successfully campaigned  cutbacks and privatisation. numbers of teachers because campaigned to save acute of Tory cuts.  to save the 195, 196 and  199 bus services. services at Alfred Bean hospital  reducing class sizes. in .  bringing back creative, practical  for a Pocklington town  petitioned for better local and vocational subjects. bus service. provision of mental health services. Labour councillors will work hard Labour promises to make sure Labour are working to save to increase funding to schools so these services continue, and to and improve services for all that our children can reach their protect the X36 and 36 services. of our communities. full potential.

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