Cold Sunday Mornings!

I keep telling myself that its on days like this that elections are won. Its early sunday morning, in what can only be described as baltic conditions. Out and about this morning in Millbrook, making the finishing touches to our ward leaflet. Hopefully get some good photos and voter contacts this morning.

Have a good day, keep warm and safe and go careful on the roads if you're out and about!

Universally Fair?

I don’t usually watch Daybreak on ITV, but this morning I managed to catch a snippet of our local Havant MP, David Willetts. The Minister of State for Universities and Science was stating that he felt that a small contribution to university costs was fair. I have to admit that a FAIR contribution is right and proper.

However, Mr Willetts doesn’t really seem to have a firm grip on what is fair. I worked 20 hours a week in a job whilst at college and university. I still came out with substantial debts caused by paying for fees and LIVING COSTS. I’m afraid my £10 per day loan just didn’t cover my extravagant costs such as food, heating and rent.

But what really got me angry was his insistence that £9,000  per year was fair. 9% of your earnings taken from you was fair. Free education for those who make these new decisions was fair. Do you ever get the feeling that they’ve run into the castle and pulled up the drawbridge?

So...if David Linsay Willetts wants to push ahead with this reform, will he be backdating this to include his own free education at Christ Church College, Oxford? Or David Cameron’s free education at Oxford or Nick Clegg’s free education at Cambridge University?

Didn’t think so.

I guess I’ll just be happy that I pay record levels of pension contributions, record mortgages (with northern rock) and pay back my student fees. Aren’t we lucky to live in such a FAIR society.

And so it begins...

Yesterday afternoon, after a rigourous selection process, the Labour Party members of Millbrook selected me as their Candidate for the 2011 Southampton City Council Elections. I am very excited about the challenge ahead of me, but with the support of the party and the people of Millbrook behind me we can make a difference.

The people and community of Millbrook will no longer be taken for granted. We will not be ignored.