St Nicolas Leaflet 1

The First election leaflet has been published for St Nicolas Ward. Keith Kondakor is standing in for both Borough Ward and County council Division (by-election). The Division is a larger that the ward, including parts of Crow’s Nest area of the Whitestone Ward.

http://greennuneaton.org.uk/ngp/?page_id=135

key issues:-

Schools, care for the elderly, housing, fire cuts, transport, councillor’s expenses.

We have almost 4,000 to deliver but hope everyone in the ward will have them within a week.

We have made a great start

The 4^th of June was the first election for the Nuneaton Green Party. In the 2007 Abbey By-election and 2008 local elections I stood as a lone green candidate. This year we fielded a full slate of 14 candidates and took a very respectable 13% of the Vote in Nuneaton and Bedworth. To put this in context the Liberal Democrats took under 2%. In the Abbey ward I was few votes behind the Tory.

We need more members so that we can build from here. Both Labour and Tories have rich backers that allow them to run complex marketing systems. The big parties use automatic dialling systems to phone voters in key wards in the days before the elections and hold a database on voters. Sadly such an effort is not used to work in the interests of voters but just to get your vote.

Please make contact if you can help us change the political landscape in Warwickshire. Our profile will rise as we become established as the principal opposition to the two old main parties. If we had a proportional representation system we would have taken around 2 of the 14 seats.

keith Kondakor

Full results

Coventry Telegraph - Tory Green Councillor expenses shame

From the Coventry telegraph on th 16th May 2009 as a result of Green party Freedon of Information request about keith Kondakor finding out that Tory Councillor Martin Heatley claiming £8,600 in Travel expenses. This is on top of the Vast abount paid for traveing to EU quangos.

see here for full table of expenses

coventry telegrap 16 May 2009 page 1

coventry telegrap 16 May 2009 page 6

page 6

Warwickshire’s home care workers axed and gagged

The Nuneaton news reports that home care works have been send a “gagging order” to stop them talking to MPs or Councillors about the loss of their jobs!

I hope to get a copy of the gagging letter soon and will publish a copy here if I do.

The only way to stop the job losses and service cuts is to vote Green. Labour will make some noise but would let the Tories do something so stupid.

If any of them would like to email or phone me then I can try to help and apply pressure on the Tories. Phone 024 76 344 079 - no need to leave name.

wcc website

leamington courier nuneaton news

Reablement service to replace Home care Workers

Does reablement sound like something good? I am sure some people could be helped to look after themselves better but this policy at Warwickshire County Council is focused on cutting jobs. Those who have been given reablement will have less care than before and more people will have been added to the Jobless totals.

Reablement is replacement of homecare just like being mugged is giving to Charity.

Next Secret Cabinet Meeting

The Cabinet is meeting on the 28^th of May at Warwick. It will discuss the cuts to home care service in a non-public session after the main cabinet meeting. There will be no press or public allowed to know what is said.

see item 21 on agenda

Cameron came to town

This evening David Cameron was at Kegs. He was very skilful and a true expert in spinning privatisation of services as freedom of choice. Strangely I was one of the few people who were not allowed to ask him a question. I guess that is why they sat me at the very edge.

If you are reading this, Mr Cameron, I was going to ask you to give up on trying to reform the Tories and join the Green Party instead. After a long introduction we can get you to understand about social justice is better than the free market that has made such a mess. David said MPs need to rebuild trust - I say its better to make a fresh start with new people and a new party. I would think a move to Stoke-on-Trent would help refresh things.

I would also liked to ask how a local Tory County Council could run up a £8,600 bill in one year.

Keith Kondakor

Stopping school nightmare

Labour Government academy policy and the Tory run County Council is making the future of Nuneaton secondary schools as clear as mud. We have the local Labour party weakly opposing the academy plans while trying not say at academy schools do not work.

The only sensible vote to keep all our local schools open and well funded is to vote for the Green Party.

Academy schools are labour policy carried out by a Tory County Council.

It is likely that all the schools are going to be in limbo as the money to build the schools has been lost.

Warwickshire Councillors allowances

The County Councillors get paid a basic allowance, more for responsibility and over £100,000 in travel cost. We need to get the detail of how some have spent £1,000s on travelling. The most remarkable is local Freemason, Farmer and Cabinet member for Environment who charged us £8,672.52p for Travel in 2007/8.

Cllr Martin Heatley travels to London First Class and manages to claim for 52 miles round trip to have a meeting with the NFU at Shire Hall which is only 18 miles from his farm. Going the long way via M6 junction 2 only makes this a 45 mile round trip.

Data from Freedom of information request as 8th May 2009

Green Party in Nuneaton to stand a full slate for Warwickshire County Council Elections.

The Green Party has been transforming politics in towns and cities across the UK.  Green Councillors have saved post offices, made streets safer, and are well known for working hard for local communities because they believe in putting the community first.  The Green Party is forming its own autonomus Local Party in Nuneaton and Bedworth.

So everyone has the chance to vote for the Green Party and therefore to vote for a safer, cleaner, and fairer society in the two Elections on the 4^th June.

The top priority for the Green Party is to save local services from more damaging cuts and highly risky privatisations.  We face the planned sacking of the councils home care staff, starting up Academy Schools, further Post Office closures and merging Nuneaton & Bedworth Fire Stations.  Both Labour and Conservatives are putting the profits of business ahead of needs of the public.

The full slate of 14 candidates for seats within the Borough is made up of 8 women and 6 men. The presence of so many female candidates is common in the Green Party, which has recently selected Caroline Lucas as it leader.

The most prominent candidate is likely to be Keith Kondakor, the award winning environmental campaigner who spent most of the last year fighting the planned hazardous waste plant at Judkins. Keith will stand in the Nuneaton town centre Abbey ward.

Keith said, “When elected as the County Councillor for Abbey division I will have one of the most challenging and rewarding jobs in Nuneaton.  The problems faced by 6000 people with the County Council will become my problems.  I am not a Politician like the rest, and I will really change things for the better.  Just having my photo taken outside a closing post office or vandalised building is not enough.  I campaign on an issue until all hope is lost and then campaign some more.  I do not give up. The County Council will have a very hard time to close anything in Nuneaton Abbey when I am elected.”