SUNDERLAND CONSERVATIVES City news WINTER 2011 YOUR CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES Strong local voices for Sunderland – May 2012 CCiittyy nneewwss SUNDERLAND CONSERVATIVES News and views from your local Conservatives BOB FRANCIS GRAHAM HALL Fulwell St.Peter’s Inside – Inside – SEAFRONT IMPROVING UPDATE EDUCATION VAUX: A SYMBOL OF Sunderland Conservatives are backing the bid for the Iconic Bridge. HILARY JOHNSON MARGARET FORBES Washington East St.Michael’s LABOUR’S FAILURE *Photo: courtesy and copyright of Sunderland Echo. y THE BRIDGE Sunderland Conservatives are backing TONY MORRISSEY ALAN WRIGHT RICHARD VARDY SHAUN CUDWORTH the bid for the Sunderland Strategic Barnes St.Chad’s Doxford Ryhope Transport Corridor and Iconic Bridge to improve the road network linking the A19 with the City Centre and encourage economic growth at the Port and throughout the City. Please use this space to let Sunderland Conservatives know of any issues you wish to raise: Have your say TOURIST After eleven years, the Vaux site remains a wasteland. INFORMATION CENTRE *Photo: courtesy and copyright of Sunderland Echo. Sunderland Conservatives have protested at the decision by the Council to re-locate In the 2011 local elections, ARTICLE BY: the Tourist Information Centre to the second floor of the Library. Tourism is Labour candidates, in the main, vital to the City’s economy and to encourage fought their campaigns on visitors we need a more accessible and visible location for the TIC. national issues and scare I am interested in helping Sunderland Conservatives Please tick boxes below: stories. This is no surprise, as ALAN WRIGHT TONY MORRISSEY x METRO Telephone residents Knock on doors Deliver leaflets Become a member of they could not defend their record St.Chad’s Barnes REFURBISHMENT the Conservative Party in Sunderland. Labour has The Conservative-led Government is committed to the modernization of the controlled the Council for 40 years and what have we got? Metro system with £385million to be Please return this form to: Sunderland Conservatives, FREEPOST, RRSX-HATT-YLUX, P.O.Box 1922,Sunderland, SR5 9BZ. spent over the next ten years covering the Outside of The Bridges, the City Centre one of the more ambitious councils which refurbishment of the Metro cars and stations We would like to keep in touch with you about the issues you have raised. 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They complain now and Sunderland Conservatives are backing Many academies have transformed propose little but there is a way forward. you believe it's all doom and 96,332 on seven free schools and academies to improve academic achievement beyond recognition We need to rebalance the economy by £1 educational standards in the City where in areas of severe deprivation by encouraging more private sector employment gloom under the Coalition full-time trade union truancy currently stands at one of the concentrating on good standards of already successful at Nissan and Doxford Government but a lot of good officials. worst rates in England. discipline, traditional teaching methods International. This is happening through The Labour Council has poured millions and effective leadership. the creation of an Enterprise Zone and the things are happening. into new buildings but three of these Likewise, Sunderland Conservatives incentive of retaining business rates. or Likewise, in Welfare and Education we £850,642 on car lease f schools in Sunderland are now in special have been actively supporting the need to help those who want to work by senior Council officers. measures at a cost of £45million to the application by Grindon Hall School to introducing more fairness into the benefits 2,500 extra doctors taxpayers and an even bigger cost in terms become a free school. This has been employed in the NHS. system and more apprenticeships for young of lost potential for the pupils in them. successful and the excellent education people. Our view is that everyone who can private £1,460,000 to The Conservative approach is to the school offers will now be free for all. contribute must. £21million to boost medical accountants for introduce more rigour and autonomy research in the North East. y. into the system, like our consultanc competitors in China Basic state pension and Germany, where increased by £4.50 less money is spent but to £102.15. the results are better according to international 81 on bottled water in comparisons. £24,6 One way of doing this is to encourage the just one year conversion of schools to academies as they have a record of producing GCSE results which are eight times more im- y SUNDERLAND CONSERVATIVES WANT proved than in maintained SEAFRONT: MORE schools and allow more TO ENCOURAGE ENTERPRISE. freedom for headteachers. ASPIRATION NEEDED *Photo: courtesy and copyright of Sunderland Echo. LABOUR’S ATTACK ON YOUR HOME y BASIC STATE PENSIONS HAVE INCREASED Exports from the North East The Labour Party has endorsed a plan to use council tax increases to have increased by 4.4%. drive people from their family homes if they have more bedrooms than The right to buy your council they need. It will hit you whether you own or rent your home. house restored. *Photo: courtesy and copyright of Sunderland Echo. We disagree. People should not without losing their security of tenure. Sunderland Conservatives are Income Tax reduced for the be taxed or bullied out of their ARTICLE BY: Sunderland Conservatives say: also supporting the restoration of the lowest earners. The Council’s Seaburn Master homes, having worked hard and “Labour caused this shortage yet Right to Buy policy, so popular among Plan is a belated attempt to paid their taxes all their lives. they want the elderly of many City residents who purchased A low-carbon Enterprise Our Government is working with Sunderland to pay for their homes from the Council. Zone along the A19. persuade residents that they have families to build more homes and their failure”. The Alongside this will be a proposal to some aspiration for the Seafront. increase choice. Coalition Government build a house for each one sold. A Council Tax freeze for We have provided £13million are making it easier for councils to make it easier for a second year running. More aspiration is needed at the Seafront to build new family BOB FRANCIS GRAHAM HALL tenants who actively want to move homes and don't with the Council failing to regenerate an Fulwell St Peter’s from larger family homes to smaller Record number of people asset that would enhance the area after want to force people homes. Our FirstBuy scheme is employed at Nissan. long years of neglect. Most of all, there had enough consultations and now out of their homes, helping first time buyers, and our is a need for covered recreational need action. rented or owned, by National Home Swap initiative will Biggest ever rise in the facilities as in South Shields. South Tyneside is spending £17million punitive taxation allow social tenants to move home number of apprenticeships. Currently the pier is closed, the on new leisure facilities having brought and bullying. Victorian toilets beyond repair and the in private financing. Why not in granite seats uncomfortable. We’ve had Sunderland? 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