Jas Singh for Calverley & Farsley

One of the many excellent Conservative candidates standing in the local elections next week is my friend Jas Singh, who is standing in the Calverley & Farsley ward for Leeds City Council.

Jas lives in the ward and would make an excellent councillor. Last time he stood in this ward he very narrowly lost. Last year in this ward the leader of the Conservative group on Leeds City council, Cllr Andrew Carter CBE, was re-elected with 3,539 votes and a majority of 296 ahead of the Labour candidate who polled 3,243 votes. Indications are that this year's election may be close again.

My wife and I went to support and campaign for Jas this morning and had a good session.

If any voters from Calverley and Farsley should happen to be reading this blog, here is what Jas has written to residents of the area about the election for the West Leeds Dispatch.

"This election is about local issues not national. Locally, I work hard with Cllrs Andrew and Amanda Carter, and we put you first.

I live in Farsley with my wife and two children. I am passionate about our area and I want it to remain a great place to live, work and raise a family. I face the same day-to-day issues as you, such as missed bin collections and the condition of our roads. If elected I will continue to fight, alongside Cllrs Andrew and Amanda Carter, to make life better for everyone – whether that is opposing the increase in council tax, campaigning to protect the environment or lobbying for more leisure services. 

I am working hard with Andrew and Amanda, to tackle the local issues that affect you and your family, including:

  • Ensuring the Calverley/Farsley bridge across the ring road is completed, linking our villages
  • Being tough on anti-social behaviour by working with local law enforcement, 
  • Fighting for better road safety by stopping motorists from using our roads as rat runs and preventing drivers from racing each other around the area, 
  • Tackling inappropriate planning applications to prevent overdevelopment and the loss of our green spaces, 
  • Keeping parking free and accessible for everyone across the Leeds area 

This election is about the issues that affect us locally, on a daily basis. As a team we will continue to put your needs first, ensuring that the local services we all rely on are maintained and improved.

The towns and villages that make up our ward are fantastic places to live, and we want them to stay that way."


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria

Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
Read more

Quotes of the day 19th August 2020

Image
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."  ( Cato the Elder , who lived 234 BC - 149 BC, quoted in "Lives" by Plutarch.) There is a similar saying by Germany's Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck: Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have put the same saying in a more humorous form: "Wise men profit by the mistakes of others, while fools will not learn even from their own blunders." See also this thread on the "Quote Investigator" website . Let us all be wise and learn from the events of the last few days.
Read more

Quote of the day 24th July 2020

I was moved to put the passage below forward as a quote today when I saw a horrible post on twitter from someone writing that it was "excellent" that someone who took a different view from her about Brexit had died. I won't write which way round it was so that all the Remain supporters can assume the post was from a Brexit fanatic welcoming the death of a remainer and all the Leavers can assume it was a Remainiac welcoming one less Brexiteer. There's been plenty of nasty stuff on both sides but if you catch anyone of your own viewpoint  posting something like that who might listen to you, please do call them out on it - and point out that they're giving everyone on your side of the argument a bad name. Anyway, here's the quote from John Donne.
Read more