IT IS what they always dreamed of. For Stephen when he took his first steps as a councillor is Abridge. For Jackie, it was over twenty years ago as a young woman in Sheffield.
Today, Jackie and Stephen join 226 other new MP’s as they take their seats in the most hallowed seat of parliamentary democracy in the world.
With the Con-Dem coalition now in place and George Osborne and David Laws preparing £6 billion pounds worth of cuts, the honeymoon period will be short.
Already in the borough, there are questions over the funding for National Skills Academy and the future for hundreds of students in Palmer’s College with the Educational Maintenance Allowance as well as many other economic issues.
YourThurrock hopes to be catching up with the two tyro Tories later on in the day.
