CONSERVATIVE TEAM CONTACT YOUR News from Canalside Conservatives SEE OVERLEAF intouch Winter 2017/18 ROBINA IS WORKING FOR CANALSIDE Robina Shaheen stood for the Labour Party in Woking, including in the 2016 elections. She has now joined the Conservatives to get results for Canalside and tells her story here. “I would like to tell you a constantly being raised with little bit about myself and me was how hard it was why I think I would make a for Asian women to find strong local representative a female bilingual driving for us all. instructor. It gave me the “My family moved to Woking idea of training myself as from Pakistan when I was a driving instructor and so one year old. I was brought since 2001, I have been up here and attended local running my own driving schools. school, with many of my clients from the Asian “While still a teenager, I community - but also from was married and had to outside it. move away; I had a baby in my teens. Due to personal “I find through this work that circumstances I came back people talk to me about their to Woking and single- issues and again I get to handedly raised my four point them in the direction of people who can help. children. Robina in Wheatsheaf Common “Being a single Muslim “I was told by a friend woman, I realised that it that I would make a good was very difficult to get Councillor and that I should ROBINA : WHY I DECIDED TO recognition or support but I find out more about being STAND AS A CONSERVATIVE overcame those obstacles, one if I wanted to do more to persevered and worked help people. ”I discussed what Conservatives believe in and I think my own hard. “I have become more values are the same; freedom, family, enterprise, security and responsibility. “I have always made time convinced that it is to help others and ended up Conservative values that “The freedom to be independent - to be able to make choices working first as a volunteer can really make a difference in life and to be what we want to be on our own merits. Family then as an advisor for to people; I want to help because everything I have ever done, everything that we all do Citizen’s Advice Woking. people help themselves for our children and families is so important. and to empower them. So “In that role, I dealt with “Enterprise because I believe in hard work and reward from that often the solution to people’s work. Like many people in our community, I run my own business people’s issues on housing, problems comes from within and see that hard work every day. welfare, benefits, debt and themselves. family problems. I was “Security because our society cannot function without law advising people from all “I am seeking your support and order. Responsibility because I believe we must all take parts of the community and so that I can get your voice responsibility for ourselves and work hard so that we will be in a I was working one day each heard at the heart of a team position to help other people. week at the Maybury Centre. making decisions about “I think these values are values that are shared by many people the future of our town and in Canalside and are ones on which I am proud to stand.” “One of the things that was community.” Caring and Campaigning for Canalside Find out more at wokingconservatives.org.uk News from Canalside Conservatives ROBINA SUPPORTS OUR GREEN BELT Conservative candidate are very unhappy at that idea. Robina Shaheen has said that There is no way our area can she stands with residents in support such a large site being their attempts to make Woking earmarked for development Borough Council think again on and things are only going to get the Green Belt Review. more crowded after 2027. Plans are being considered to “We do need houses that remove a piece of land from the people can afford but with the Green Belt that would give the regeneration of Sheerwater potential for development on and Victoria Square, as well as what is currently New Zealand other development sites, I am Golf Club post-2027. sure that we can meet this need without Green Belt incursion.” Robina said: “I know residents Robina at the site that could be removed from the Green Belt A CAUTIOUS WELCOME FOR News SNIPPETS TACKLING ANTI-SOCIAL SHEERWATER PROJECT BEHAVIOUR AND CRIME Robina has strong family links with the Robina wants to work with Woking Sheerwater area and her father lived Borough Council and Surrey Police to there for many years. She understands tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in the networks of family and friends that Maybury and Sheerwater. people have and that the Sheerwater “Residents are telling me that they are Regeneration Project may be unsettling seeing more and more crime and want to some residents. someone to address it,” she said. “Our “But there are positive things to come current Councillors are not doing enough out of this as well,” she said. “During the but I will work hard to be tough on crime.” course of consulting with council tenants, Woking Borough Council has intervened WORKING WITH TAXIS to help many older and vulnerable Our taxi drivers work hard to keep people and offer them support. Woking moving late at night and early in “I know that Sheerwater Regeneration the morning. Robina will work with Cllr will never be accepted by some Rashid Mohammed to ensure that they residents but I think it could be a good have a strong voice at the heart of the thing and inject new life into our area.” Woking Borough Council Conservative Robina at Sheerwater Recreation Ground administration. YOUR CONSERVATIVE TEAM FOR YOUR CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR CANALSIDE CANALSIDE WARD Cllr Ben Carasco WRITE 25 Norfolk Farm Road, Woking GU22 8LH CALL 07733 307525 EMAIL [email protected] Jonathan Lord MP WRITE House of Commons London SW1A 0AA CALL 0207 219 6913 EMAIL [email protected] Robina Shaheen 07878 060098 [email protected] Caring and Campaigning for our Community Promoted by Simon Ashall on behalf of Woking Conservatives, both of Churchill House, Chobham Road, Woking GU21 4AA. Printed by <Insert full address and postcode of printer>. .