Election win Yesterday

Conservatives gain seat from Lib Dems in South Bucks. Lib Dem voters leaving in droves and  now have the lowest national ratings for years.

Helping our High Street

Your local Conservative Councillors are working hard to help small businesses in our High Street.  This has not happened overnight.  For the past five years the Conservatives have instigated and set up the local Business Community.  Starting with a meeting held in the local area, Cllrs Codd and Smith met up with five local businessmen.  Cllr Codd chaired that first meeting and, when he became Mayor, handed it over to Cllr Smith.

Cllr Smith reported that with the help of local Conservative Councillors he was able to hand over the Chairmanship at a meeting when some thirty-five local business people attended.  He stated that the success in bringing together the local businessmen and women was an indication of the commitment of the Conservatives to our local community and it was time for them to be in the driving seat with the Councillors giving as much support as they could.

Your Conservative Councillors have kept their word and are striving to help the High Street while the local Lib Dem Councillors have opposed the moves we are making with the business community to help with schemes of improvement that would see our High Street not fall into disrepair like so many in the country.

We will not be put off by the Lib Dems when only one ever bothered to attend any of the meetings in the in the past four years.  Is it little wonder that they lost a seat in Beverley Ward?  The lack of support, their failure to communicate with residents, their lack of transparency; all these and more tell us that they are not fit to run the Council.  Cllr Terry Paton has achieved more in four months than the Lib Dems have in four years.

Energy Bills

The Government is announcing the details of its plan to roll back the green levies that add to hardworking people's energy bills

Just like the other things we inherited from Labour – the record peacetime deficit, rising unemployment and out-of-control immigration – the problems with our energy market were allowed to build up over many years.

Instead of gimmicks we are offering the real solution of rolling back the levies that are placed by the government on people’s electricity bills.  These changes will save the average bill £50 off electricity and gas bills. And it’s welcome, for example, that British Gas has said that energy bill rises will be £53 lower thanks to this Government's action.

Our long-term plan offers genuine help for hardworking people: it is deliverable and it will help bring energy bills down. But what is crucial to securing higher living standards for all is delivering on our plan for a responsible recovery.