Vote Blue to Go Green in Grove

Grove ward residents are shocked at the lack of recycling facilities for household waste. As such, the local Conservative Party has contacted hundreds of residents to find out what they think of their recycling facilities.

Despite the need for Kingston to recycle more (to save the environment and tax payers money going on astronomical landfill costs), recycling and composting rates combined have actually fallen in Kingston over the last two years under the Liberal Democrat Administration.

Conservative Councils have a record of reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill sites and therefore reducing the amount of taxes charged to residents and helping the environment. Weekly recycling is a policy we called for at the last Local Elections and are glad the Liberal Democrats have come to our way of thinking, but we will continue to fight for a weekly collection of everyday household waste.

Kingston Town Centre for all, all of the time

Anti-social behaviour, stabbings, drunkenness, graffiti, fighting and an intimidating atmosphere is what we find on Friday and Saturday nights in Kingston Town Centre and in Grove ward.

Conservatives and local residents are tired of this and want to re-claim our historical town centre, which is why Grove Conservatives are calling for an Alcohol Exclusion Zone to clean up the mess that has become our town centre.

Helen Whately

Selected as the next Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Kingston and Surbiton.

150 Residents and Conservative party members of Kingston and Surbiton came together on Tuesday 17th April to select the next Conservative Candidate for the Borough, the Primary selection was hosted by Michael Portillo.

After 2 hours of speeches the votes were cast and Helen Whately was chosen to be the Kingston and Surbiton Conservative Parliamentary candidate.

Helen Whately is a businesswoman and shadow ministerial advisor with experience in Health and Education.

She has had a successful career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and AOL, the internet company.

She teaches public speaking in secondary schools, is a school governor and campaigner for the NHS. She has contributed to David Cameron’s Qualify of Life policy group and is currently working on the ‘Inquiry on Childhood’ just launched by David Willetts MP.

Helen grew up in Surrey near Redhill and went to schools in Reigate and Woldingham. After taking A-levels at Westminster School she spent a year teaching in a village school in Nepal. In 1995 she went to Oxford University where she read PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics).

As well as campaigning, contributing to Conservative policy and community activities, Helen finds time to go riding, skiing, running and rollerblading (occasionally).

Lib Dem spending and Labour taxes hit Kingston hard

The Lib Dems in Kingston have been accused of a catalogue of waste as council tax soars. The theatre alone will add almost £500,000, in interest alone, to Council spending. Their failure to increase recycling has led to soaring landfill fines from the Government. As useless road schemes are implemented so has Council Tax risen. Gordon Brown has used Council Tax as a stealth tax and looks set to increase it more when he becomes Prime Minister.

Local Conservatives want to see a better deal for Kingston, but to make the case we need to see the Lib Dems in Kingston do a better job at managing the Council’s finances.

Stop Brown’s NHS cuts to Kingston health services

 

Gordon Brown’s mismanagement of the NHS has led to deficits approaching £1,277,000,000, 18,000 job losses in NHS hospitals and local service cutbacks, including 95 job losses at Kingston hospital, amongst the bed cuts and savings of £7.5m.

Despite Labour’s much-vaunted claim that its primary care White Paper, Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, published on 30 January, would spell a reprieve for community hospitals, 81 are still threatened by of cutbacks or closure, according to the Community Hospitals Association. These include both Surbiton and Tolworth hospitals.

Kingston Conservatives have now launched a major campaign to Stop Brown’s NHS Cuts. We want NHS money to go where it is needed. ‘Local people should be put in charge of local NHS services and short-sighted closures replaced with long term measures that improve care for patients’ said Kevin Davis local Conservative Campaigner.

To add your support to the campaign to Stop Brown’s NHS Cuts please write to:
KSCA 11 Kingsmill Business Park Chapel Mill Road Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 3GZ

or sign our e-petition at
www.conservatives.com/nhyes

Conservatives working with Local Police to reduce crime in Grove

Conservatives working with Local Police to reduce crime in Grove

The highest levels of crime in Kingston are found in Grove Ward. A recent crime report stated that. Offences are heavily concentrated in Grove ward where [over] 30% of all recorded crimes [are] committed.

Conservative activists are working with the Safer Neighborhood Police teams to reduce crime and combat the tide of anti-social behavior.

If you want to report a crime or speak to your safer neighborhood team then contact them on 020 8721 2588 or 07876 790197 or email them on grove.snt@met.police.uk

Safer Neighborhoods teams are not there to provide a 24-hour response; this is the role of response team officers. Response team officers do pass on information to Safer Neighborhoods teams as appropriate. In an emergency always dial 999.

Stop the Post Office Closures

Conservatives, locally and nationally, are campaigning to have the Government take more action to prevent the further closure of post offices across the Borough. Our Lib Dem MP has failed to stop the continuing closure of our Post Offices. When the Grove Post Office closed the Lib Dem’s claimed they were going to work towards opening a new one and nothing has happened.

Lib Dem’s say privatise the Post Offices

Conservatives have thrown their support behind a countrywide campaign to save the nation’s network of Post Offices, and David Cameron has promoted a special action plan designed to prevent further closures and cut backs. With hundreds of sub Post Offices threatened with cash curbs and closures, the Conservative Leader challenged Tony Blair to consider new ways of maintaining services including a plan for more local council work to be channelled through the Post Office network, which could help local authorities more effectively engage with local communities.

Your local Lib Dem’s want to privatise the Post Office service. David Cameron said: “We have developed, in partnership with our colleagues in local government, the idea of providing council services through ‘Council Counters’ in Post Offices.”

Council Counters would improve engagement with local residents; ensure that vulnerable people had access to vital service sand help to secure the long-term future of the Post Office network.

Grove Conservative Campaigner, Mike Burden, said: “Our Post Offices are vital and we should be doing all we can to help them, not flogging them off like the Lib Dem’s want us to do.”