Leicester Council elections

Leicester Council elections - Castle Ward

Bob Ball Margaret Layton Castle Ward Green Party
C/o 215 Clarendon Park Road
Leicester LE2 3AN
TEL 221 3224

April 2003

Dear elector,

We are writing as your local Green Party candidates for the Leicester City Council elections on Thursday May 1, to tell you about our aims before you use your vote.

Chris Hughes Over the last year we've emerged as an active local opposition to Labour, the Lib Dems and Tories in Castle. Although Labour have been in charge of the Council for decades, many people are sceptical of their local - and national - record. Therefore, Labour could lose control of the Council this year with no party in overall control. However, a strong Green voice at the Town Hall will help to ensure that principled decisions are made.

Bob Ball, working on behalf of the Green Party, has been actively campaigning and producing regular newsletters in Castle all year, unlike other parties, who only come round at election times. The Greens have been working as "shadow councillors" to resolve residents' problems with council services, and to find out their views. We have:

campaigned to tackle wheeled bins left on pavements and against excessive flyposting (around Clarendon Park and Eastern Boulevard / Mill Lane);

conducted a survey on introducing a residents' permit parking scheme in Clarendon Park and sent the results to the Council;

acted to stop late-night nuisance music, for example, from a bar on Walnut Street;

surveyed and reported on various faulty pedestrian crossing lights and cycle traffic lights (Victoria Park, Lancaster Rd and Freemen's Common Rd);

taken action over neglected, council-owned corner gardens (Walnut / Jarrom / Havelock St area);

called for Victoria Park improvements at the pond area and to the cycle track;

supported local people's concerns about proposed large developments and park-and-ride schemes.

Bob Ball, along with other Greens, will continue the work in Castle after the election, and will be even more effective if elected.

Voting Green is also the only way to send a message to the Government that it shouldn't have taken us into war with Iraq. If you want to tell the Government that you've had enough of the way it ignores public opinion and the United Nations, then please vote Green.

All three Green Party candidates live in the ward, unlike the majority of candidates in the other parties.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or casework for us.

Best wishes,

Bob Ball, Chris Hughes and Margaret Layton
Green Party Candidates for Castle Ward

The Labour Party has issued a leaflet attacking us for "hypocrisy" because "the Green Party in Castle has its leaflets printed 100 miles away in Wakefield".

Labour are running scared and scraping the barrel for something with which to smear a party they perceive as a serious threat.

The Labour research team didn't need to work overtime to find out where our printing is done, since we state it clearly at the bottom of each leaflet.
We've had some leaflets printed in Huddersfield (not Wakefield) - but our leaflets for this election are printed by the Rural Press in Leicester.
Our election materials are printed on recycled paper. Can the Labour Party say the same?

When it comes to charges of hypocrisy, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The Labour Party

claims to represent ordinary people but solicits donations from sleazy millionaire businessmen;
claims to be democratic but is turning the House of Lords into a House of Cronies;
attacked privatisation when the Tories did it, but now continues the Tories' work with further privatisations;
allowed the Prime Minister to drag us into an unnecessary war on false pretences.

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