Everyone across South Essex can get involved
to solve Britain’s problems.
Key manifesto pledges to help improve South Basildon &
East Thurrock’s quality of life and economy

Big government, high taxes and politicians up in Whitehall won’t solve Britain’s problems, Stephen Metcalfe, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for South Basildon & East Thurrock, said this week, as he welcomed David Cameron’s impressive blueprint for a Conservative Government. Its key message is that everyone across South Basildon & East Thurrock should get together and get involved to solve Westminster’s broken politics, fix Britain’s broken society and get the area’s 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 South Basildon & East Thurrock 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 Essex 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 Basildon & Thurrock councils spend your money, by publishing detailed figures on spending and contracts online for all to see.

Stephen Metcalfe said:
“We won’t get South Basildon & East Thurrock’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 the area real power and control over their lives.

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

Posted 15/4/10

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