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NUNDY PROMISES IMMEDIATE 5% COUNCIL TAX CUT
Simon Nundy, Conservative Candidate for Mayor, has promised to cut council tax by 5% in his first year.
He says, “In the last 8 years Council Tax in Lewisham has gone up nearly 55% with nothing to show for it, that’s two and a half times inflation. Meanwhile nearby Conservative led Wandsworth Council charges half as [...]
ONLY A CONSERVATIVE CAN DEFEAT LABOUR MAYOR
In May 2008 Boris Johnson received nearly 32% of the votes cast in Lewisham. This means that on May 6th it’s going to be a straight fight for Mayor of Lewisham between the present Labour Mayor, Steve Bullock, and the Conservative Candidate Simon Nundy.
CUT WASTE, CUT TAX
LABOUR HAS HIKED UP TAXES, RUN UP DEBTS AND FAILED TO DELIVER THE SERVICES WE DESERVE
A TORY MAYOR DELIVERS
In 2008 Londoners overwhelmingly decided that they were sick and tired of a Labour Mayor wasting taxes, failing to deliver on pledges and putting ideology before the interests of London. Mayor Boris has delivered the change London was crying out for. He is a perfect example of what can be achieved under the leadership of [...]
MAKING LEWISHAM SAFE
The Conservative Mayoral Candidate, Simon Nundy, is making crime a key issue in the forthcoming elections. He says, “Crime is not an insoluble problem and resigning ourselves to containment and crime prevention initiatives is not the answer”.
Simon proposes a co-ordinated approach involving the local police, schools, estate managers, social services and all other relevant government [...]
LEWISHAM HOMES FAIL BASIC STANDARDS
Lewisham Council have one of the worst records in the country when it comes to the quality of social housing. Only 40% of housing stock is deemed up to Decent Homes standard.
The Decent Homes programme has been running since 2001. A “Decent Home” is defined as one which is “warm, weatherproof and has reasonably modern [...]
LABOUR HAVE COMPLETELY FAILED LEWISHAM SCHOOLS
Mayoral Candidate Simon Nundy believes that Labour has let down the children of Lewisham by failing to provide sufficient quality school places in the Borough.
“The search for a new secondary school site after Lewisham Council prematurely closed Telegraph Hill School has become farcical. To try to close the Ladywell Leisure Centre when the site was [...]
PUB LANDLORD CALLS TIME ON LABOUR MAYOR
Lewisham’s Conservatives have chosen local pub landlord and businessman Simon Nundy to do battle with the Labour Mayor at the local elections on May 6th. Simon, who has lived and worked in Lewisham for 17 years, has already hit the ground running with his dramatic pledge to cut Council Tax by 5% by axing wasteful [...]
TORY HOUSING BENEFIT REFORM
Under a Conservative government, tenants will be able to choose whether to have their housing allowance paid direct to landlords instead of themselves.
TORY PLANS FOR EDUCATION
Improving our schools system is the most important thing we can do to make opportunity more equal and to address our declining social mobility.
Britain is slipping down the world league tables in Maths and English, and violence in the classroom is a serious problem. Truancy is at record levels, having risen by more than a [...]