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By PIERS WAUCHOPE
 


Tories can bring a fresh start

Each week in the run-up to the May 4 council elections the New Journal is offering parties a platform to put their case to voters. This week: Piers Wauchope (pictured) of the Conservatives.

AFTER 35 years of waste and misrule, Camden finally has a chance to change.
Residents want the safer streets that a Conservative council will bring, with local police patrolling for longer hours from local police stations.
They want the resident-friendly parking policies the Conservatives offer, not the money-grabbing persecution we have now.
They want new schools, where headteachers spend their time on improving standards, not filling out forms.
They want to see the clean streets and lower council tax bills offered by Conservative boroughs like Wandsworth, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, not the shoddy services and sky-high bills they get in Labour Camden or, even worse, Lib Dem Islington.
Labour have run out of ideas. They have failed miserably on crime. No one is fooled by Camden’s rulers talking tough on drugs when only three years ago they lobbied the government to legalise them. There has to be real determination to run the dealers out of Camden. We will persecute them instead of motorists.
Our housing department has become the worst in the capital, famous only for botched repairs, financial inefficiency and an allocations policy that has often left our long-suffering residents fearful in their own homes.
I’m with the tenants on this: whether we get full government funding or not, there must be real change to get proper accountability and decent homes.
The message on the doorstep is clear: 35 years of annual tax rises, of a bloated bureaucracy, of secrecy, of unaccountability, of propaganda on the rates and fraud have all taken their toll.
Camden residents have had enough. They want a change. Only the Conservatives can beat Labour across Camden.
Only the Conservatives promise not to back Labour after the election. Only the Conservatives can bring a fresh start to Camden with better services and better value for money.
 
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