Diary Dates this week,
Wednesday 9th July Coombe Hill Manor opining event
Thursday 10th Sealing meeting and Staff meeting,
Welcome Meeting Mayors Parlour Uni students
Friday 11th Opening night Rose Theatre Raise the Roof .
Saturday 12th.
11.00 AM Opening Korean food festival New Malden
12.45 Opening Star and Garter first ever Garden Party Surbiton
5,00pm Prize giving at the Kingston Regatta

Mayors first month

  

The Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames,

Cllr Ken Smith J.P.

                             With Peter Churchill 1st Old Malden Scout group

                                                    Peter Churchill

                                              At Kingston Uni Awards

                                                  Opening the Event

                              Attending the Surrey Mayors Association 2014/2015

Wet and windy

Wet and windy but we are out there every minute of the day and late into the evenings . The message is  a simple one. WHO CAN TRUST THE LIB DEMS they have lost face  both locally and Nationally  the old western films used to say, "They speak with forked tongue"

 

It's a strange world when the Lib Dems have to petition their own party to have pot holes repaired.
On top of that they now claim responsibility  for destroying a wild life feeding habitat near Manor Park to make way for allotments something that over two hundred local residents petitioned the council about because of the mess that was left .
It a pity the then leader of the Lib Dems Cllr Osborne would not pay a small amount of money to buy the land and add it to the park.
In 2009 I put forward a proposal to apply for a Green flag in the Park, after many meeting that are recorded it was agreed to apply . St James Ward councillors working with Council officers held meetings with the independent Judges and made an application
The First was refused but with determination and hard work by our Contractors we managed to get the award the following year and have held it ever since. We have also managed to do a lot of  other improvements in the Park.

Our Plan for Kingston

Our Plan for a Better, Brighter Borough

We will make Kingston upon Thames an even more attractive place to live for you and your family

FREE 30 MINUTE PARKING across the borough to support local businesses and independent shops whilst also investing in local high streets.

STAMPING OUT ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR and enforcing a responsible attitude to issuing licenses to clubs and bars, with the introduction of more police to ensure the safety of residents.

BUILDING MORE SCHOOLS to accommodate demand and ensure our children receive the highest quality education.

CARING FOR THOSE WHO NEED OUR HELP THE MOST, the elderly and children, without delay or distraction.

INVESTING £1 MILLION in our first year in our roads, pavements and high streets, we will employ community wardens, plant more trees and invest in our parks and green spaces to ensure out local area always looks its best.

More Lib dem lies ?

LibDem scare stories quashed by Mayor

A Liberal Democrat campaign against up to 70,000 new homes in Chessington has been dismissed “scaremongering”, reports the Surrey Comet. Boris Johnson told a recent question time session at Richard Challenor School that he did not support building on the greenbelt. A Labour spokesman said that she “hated this stupid campaigning style of the Lib Dems”.

This Week

 This week, the amount of money people will be able to receive without paying income tax on it rises to £10,000.

Corporation tax is being reduced to 21%, alongside cuts to employers' National Insurance contributions and changes to business rates.

Employment is growing three times faster than any recovery on record,  "it's no good creating jobs if we're also paying people to stay on welfare"

Backing businesses by cutting their taxes so they can create jobs, cutting the tax on hard-working people so their job pays, and holding back welfare rises and imposing more conditions on those claiming the dole, so that getting a job pays more."

Hard working people should know that thanks to their sacrifices this Government has been able  to turn around the Financial  mess left by the last Labour Government. 

Thanks to the leadership of todays Government we have not followed  the likes of Spain  and Greece with massive unemployment. We have put more people back to work thus ensuring a long term stability for our Nation, 

The job is not yet done we have a way to go to correct the mismanagement of our Country by the Labour Government  but with your patients  and help we will get there.   

There will be a vote on the Government’s Charter for Budget Responsibility today.

There will be a vote on the Government’s Charter for Budget Responsibility today.

At the Budget, the Chancellor updated the Charter for Budget Responsibility so we continue to reduce the deficit as part of our long-term economic plan – helping to build a stronger, more competitive economy and secure a better future for Britain.

By voting for our updated plan to reduce the deficit and cap welfare, Labour would be making a promise that they intend to break in office – because their actual policy is to borrow more and spend more, including on welfare. That’s exactly how they got us into a mess in the first place. And despite voting for the welfare cap, Labour are promising to breach it in office by restoring the spare room subsidy – a welfare spending rise.

Nothing will change – it’s the same old Labour with no plan to secure Britain’s future.

Other lines

SSE have announced they will freeze energy prices until 2016 as a result of cuts to green taxes

As SSE say themselves, the Government's decision to cut the taxes that add to energy bills was the “principal factor in SSE being able to make this price commitment”.

The only long-term way to keep hardworking families’ energy bills down is to cut the taxes that add to those bills and increase competition in the market through our annual test.

Ed Miliband’s policy is a short-term, political fix that would lead to higher bills, meaning less financial security for hardworking people.

Budget 2014

Today I set out my Budget for building a resilient economy. It is part of our long-term economic plan - a plan that is delivering economic security for families up and down the country. We have come a long way. The independent forecasts show growth is up, jobs are up, and the deficit is down. But the job is far from done. I haven't shied away from telling the British people about the difficult decisions we face. And just because things are getting better now, I haven't shied away from it today either. The deficit is down by a third, and in the coming year it will be down by a half. But it is still one of the highest in the world - so we are taking action to bring the deficit down further. Investment and exports are up. But we've got twenty years of catching up to do - so I have backed businesses who invest and export. Manufacturing halved under Labour, with all bets on the City of London. But manufacturing is growing again, and jobs are being created across the country - and we're doing everything we can to support that. And while as a nation we're getting on top of our debts, for many decades Britain has borrowed too much and saved too little. So today, I have made sure hardworking people keep more of what they earn - and of what they save. Support for savers is at the centre of this Budget. With the help of the British people we're turning the economy around. Our goal is economic security for the families of Britain - and today, with this Budget, we take another step towards it.

Support your local shops

The butcher at the end of the road, the local pub, the factory on the outskirts of town. It’s small businesses like these that are creating jobs across the country, and giving more and more people the security of a pay packet each month. We’re backing them wherever we can: cutting the jobs tax, getting rid of red tape, improving the infrastructure which is vital to their business.

This weeks contacts

I have dealt with issues this week in Blakes Lane, Blakes Ave Woodside Gardens Kirran close George Road Queens Road Knighwood Wilton Grove Canfield Gardens and Fir Close Wetsbury and Presburg  Hatton Close
 Not bad for one week

Surgery

I will be at a Ward surgery this Saturday dealing with items on Grants

No to Federalism and why we need the Vote in 2017

The Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists parties will not field a candidate for the Commission Presidency as part of the 2014 European election, the AECR President Jan Zahradil MEP and Secretary General Daniel Hannan MEP told a press conference in Brussels today.

The AECR considers the process being followed by other pan-European parties as lacking in public support and legal authority. To participate would be to legitimise the idea that a European executive should be chosen by a federal legislature. Yet federalism has no treaty basis, nor any backing from the electorates.

A ComRes poll published to accompany the AECR’s announcement, conducted across the six largest member states, found that people believe that their countries have already ceded too much power to the EU (by 55 per cent to 25 per cent), that Brussels is out of touch (67 per cent to 19 per cent), and that that the EU is moving in the wrong direction (60 per cent to 24 per cent).

Zahradil and Hannan said that the main candidates remain stuck in a 1950s vision of Euro-federalism. Martin Schulz for the PES, Guy Verhofstadt for ALDE and – it seems likely – Jean-Claude Juncker for the EPP offer almost interchangeable platforms, based around deeper political integration. These three men, together with other potential candidates, also score very low in public recognition, according to our poll.

AECR President Jan Zahradil said: “The AECR rejects the federalism of the old parties. We aspire to speak for that large majority of Europeans who have never consented to be citizens of a federal union. We believe that the voice of this growing group of people should be heard in the debates, but we cannot subscribe to a scheme that will give the President of the Commission an artificial mandate from the people, even though most people have never even heard of him, let alone voted for him.

Lib Dems are loosing all over the Country

The latest result show that Voters are turning their back on the lib Dems big time.

The Liberal Democrats lost their deposit, as their share of the vote tumbled by 17% to below the crucial 5% level.

Positive UK backdrop to Europe elections

Positive UK backdrop to Europe elections

With the UK confirmed as the fastest growing economy in Western Europe, unemployment figures dropping to 7.1% and crime falling by 10% in England and Wales, conditions going into London’s May 22 European and local elections are very favourable for the Conservatives.

In addition, a 30% reduction in net immigration figures show that the government is committed to its pledge and to preventing EU benefit tourism abuses, while in finally returning radical cleric Abu Qatada, Home Secretary Theresa May has succeeded where many other home secretaries have failed in resisting the powers of the European Court of Human Rights.

Prime Minister David Cameron has made a solemn promise if returned to government in 2015 to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the EU and following this an In/Out referendum on EU membership in 2017.

The PM has also safeguarded the City of London by ensuring double majority voting in the European Banking Authority, and secured a commitment that would stop UK participation in any future Eurozone bailouts.

Helping making our Schools better

Michael Gove  says that state schools must set their standards so high that they are indistinguishable from the top fee paying schools.

Labour let standards fall in our schools. There was unprecedented grade inflation, employers lost confidence in our exams system and we slid down the league table for school performance.  This meant that our young people did not have the skills they needed to get on in life.

That is why, as part of our long-term economic plan to secure a better future for Britain, our ambition is that state schools in England should be the best in the world.  Standards in schools should be so high all round that you should not be able to tell whether it’s in the state sector or a fee paying independent.

There are already signs of improvement – more great schools, more great teachers and more pupils achieving great results. But this must go further. Our long-term economic plan will deliver the best schools and skills for all our young people, not just those who can afford to pay, so they have a more secure future.

I attended a meeting Chaired by Lord Coe to look at the legacy one year on. it was nice to meet up with him again, Its was it was a long time ago that he and I worked on Charity events and he recalled them vividly .

Looking after our Seniors

Pensioners will continue to receive guaranteed rises in their state payouts until at least 2020 if the Conservatives win the next general election, David Cameron promised Sunday.

The prime minister vowed that a Tory government would continue the "triple lock" system, meaning pensions would rise in line with the higher rate -- inflation or wages -- or 2.5 percent.

"A Conservative government will offer pensioners a more secure future by pledging today that we will carry on using the triple lock after the next election to protect the basic state pension," Cameron wrote in the Sunday Times.

"We can only afford to do this because we are taking difficult decisions to cut the deficit and get spending under control as part of our long-term economic plan.

"I want to do everything we can to help people who have worked hard and done the right thing," he added.

 David Cameron has already suggested that the state pension would be the only benefit exempt from a new cap on overall welfare spending.