THE PROSPECTIVE parliamentary candidate for Thurrock, Polly Billington, has spoken to BBC’s Newsnight over what are the concerns and for voters in Thurrock.
Polly was speaking to reporter, Allegra Stratton at the Labour Party Conference. The issue debated was whether Labour needed to focus on people who “owned or aspired to own a conservatory.”
But Polly told the BBC that Thurrock residents had other pressing needs just now.
Polly said: “People are anxious about their prospects. It isn’t about two holidays or jobs. It is about whether I will have my job next year or not.
“You don’t have to be in a council house to be struggling.”
Polly has been joined by a host of Thurrock politicians who have attended the conference including Mike Le Surf, Barbara Rice, Angie Gaywood and Lynn Worrall.
Quite possibly my worst nightmare would be having to attend the Labour party conference to hear a party, who had over a decade in power, moan about most of their own past policies failing.
Polly, I think you are missing the point in Thurrock, yes people are in fear for their jobs but that is nationwide, In Thurrock they are continually building new houses which are attractively priced for those living on the edges of London with better paid jobs so local people are more often than not pushed out of the area, on top of that no new schools are being constructed so the influx of families are causing local schools to be oversubscribed, along with which we have one of the worst performing hospitals in the country and this is going further downhill, one A&E unit that is to cover Thurrock/Basildon and other areas is just not enough.
Until Thurrock has the infrastructure to cope with the additional families and housing then all new builds should be stopped or the problem will just get worse.
Oh Polly, you are getting out and about, aren’t you? I hope you make the same effort when the General Election arrives. assuming Cameron hasn’t come out and declared himself lifelong dictator of the UK by then. It would be nice to see you on the doorstep of my flat working for my vote. JD-P certainly didn’t last General Election and I’m sure she won’t next time either.
It is truly amazing how bad Polly’s memory is regarding her own party. It’s almost like she’s never lived in this country before, doesn’t know anything about her party’s past record. It is a theme that runs through the entire Labour leadership. Perhaps their advisers have simply said “deny everything, it’s the only way we’ll win the next election”. They appear to be hoping that the entire country suffers the collective amnesia the Labour party seems to suffer from. Perhaps Myles could develop a test for what is clearly a mental health issue afflicting the entire Labour leadership.
NoVoice – Another brilliant comment! Labour act as if the whole world changed in 2010. We have a government which, to me, almost feels identical to the last one.
No voice, it’s not so much expecting collective amnesia, the biggest concern is voting the same old way and tactical voting.
We can’t afford as a nation or individually another Labour govt. The last one cost us dear as a nation and individually due to gross financial mismanagement.