It will also be important to celebrate at the monthly “green drinks” that is held on the 4^th Tuesday of the month at the Crown (it’s the 22^nd May). We will also have a meeting of the Green party near the end of June. Please contact me if you would like to attend.

http://www.facebook.com/events/405182602847656/

Cllr Keith Kondakor!!

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I have lived in Nuneaton for over ten years, working as a self-emp

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ed maths tutor. I have been actively involved in

environmental issues for many years.   Since June 2009 I have stood for the Green Party in council elections three times: I would like to thank everyone who has voted for me in the past.  Whether you were voting for better public transport, safer streets, keeping local schools and post

offices open, a fairer society and a sustainable future, or simply protesting about the mediocrity of mainstream politics
– thank you.

Potential development area 5. This builds over all the Arbury fields and would be a sprawl of housing from Bermuda village to the Nuneaton Academy.

Potential development area 4. This would surround Seeswood pool in housing that would stretch from the West of the Arbury estate to the Ansley Road at Robinson’s End. This can only add the the hellish traffic along Arbury & Croft Roads.

From Leaked maps of Borough plan

St Nicolas Park estate to approximately double in size. This will result in significant traffic problems on the Long Shoot, Eastboro way and routes into town including the Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) near Etone School. Local schools and doctors are already over stretched. It is likely that the strip they have left along the A5 would eventually be filled with Warehousing. Already the “CV11” action group has been set up to fight Bellway’s plans for the south end of the site/ (see www.cv11.org.uk or CV11 on facebook). The northern part of St Nicolas Park estate is in the Weddington ward

Michele Kondakor - green party candidate for St Nicolas ward

Michele Kondakor

I was born and brought up in London but chose to make Nuneaton my home in 1999. I am passionate about keeping Nuneaton as the friendly ‘town in the country’ to which I moved. I love the outdoors and enjoy walking, cycling and gardening. I also like all sorts of music and play the violin in Bedworth Symphony Orchestra.

If elected, I would work to protect our green fields and encourage responsible, sustainable development. I want a greater emphasis placed on reducing litter in our area, especially in the green spaces and verges – this is tied in with reducing anti-social behaviour. I also want to see more action to improve air quality where St Nicolas and Weddington wards converge at the Old Hinckley Road gyratory. Efforts to reduce traffic levels need to be increased, with more thought given to public transport, cycling and walking.

I would like to see more equal representation of men and women on our local council to reflect the world in which we live. The Tory party in Nuneaton seems particularly unrepresentative in this respect – none of their candidates for any of the Nuneaton wards in this election are women. This decade has seen only one female Tory councillor in Nuneaton and Bedworth , who has now left the party to become an independent county councillor. (The picture elsewhere in the county, and in other parties, is slightly better.) A good balance of male and female gives a more rounded perspective, which can only be for the good in decision-making. The Green Party is keen to have a healthy gender balance.

My audit of Councillor Lobbets expenses forms from Warwickshire County council has found out that Cllr Barry Lobbett has claimed around 400 miles of election related travel expenses from the taxpayer. These claims should have never been allowed by the county. They relate to the period of the local and general election in May 2010. He stood for the ward of Bedworth North for the Tories and was helping with the general election. The Tories won the North Warwickshire parliamentary seat by just a few votes.

It is not permitted to make such claims. He also claimed for attending borough council meeting from the county council.

see councillor Lobbett’s claim forms

more about expenses scandels at count at www.wex.org.uk

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.

from the Dr Raj Mattu reinstatement committee:-

I am sure that most of you have come across Dr Raj Mattu case. Please have a look at the further information on the link below and if you feel that the health authorities and managers have a case to answer then please show your support by:

* Signing the petition, you may make appropriate comments
* Circulate the link to your family & Friends as well as wider circulation

We aim to keep the petition open till 3rd week in April and would like as many people as possible to show their support.

http://www.gopetition.com/online/34952.html

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They can claim £250 without receipts for each item. His monthly cleaning is £240 for a “tiny bedsit”.

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other expenses including tax advice

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Find out more on the facebook page Bill Olner - The expenses files

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

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