FIGHTING FOR BETTER HEALTHCARE IN STOCKPORT

Under Labour, Stockport has the worst health inequalities in Greater Manchester.

Conservatives will:

• Channel investment in doctors and nurses on the frontline
• Invest in tackling killer diseases such as cancer

Prospective Conservative MP Stephen Holland said, “It is unacceptable that Stockport has the worst health inequalities in Greater Manchester. Accessibility to the same level of healthcare should not be determined by an address. The NHS is our top priority, and Conservatives are also committed to investing in tackling killer diseases. That’s why I signed up to Cancer Research UK’s Cancer Commitment last year.”

FIGHTING FOR STOCKPORT’S LOCAL ECONOMY

Earlier this year figures revealed that Stockport had more empty shops than anywhere else in the North West.

Conservatives will help Stockport’s local economy and will:

• Boost local enterprise by cutting regulation and red tape that stifle local businesses in Stockport
• Support businesses and save jobs in Stockport by scrapping Labour’s tax on jobs

Stockport’s Labour MP is the Parliamentary Private Secretary of Gordon Brown’s Chancellor.

Isn’t it time Stockport got a better deal?

OUR OLDER PEOPLE MANIFESTO

Today David Cameron is setting out part of that positive message of change by launching our manifesto for older people. We believe they have a big part to play in making our country greater still. 

That’s why we will:

• Protect key benefits – the Winter Fuel Allowance, free bus passes, free TV licences and the pension credit. Unlike Labour, we will not scrap Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance for the over 65s.
• Provide a better basic state pension by linking it to earnings.
• Freeze council tax for two years in partnership with local councils.
• Protect NHS spending so it has the resources it needs to meet people’s rising expectations about the quality of care they should receive.
• Scrap Labour’s jobs tax, and using the £200 million a year this will save the NHS to create a Cancer Drugs Fund – making sure that everyone has access to the cancer drugs their doctors think will help them.

Stephen said, “Under Labour two and a half million pensioners are living in poverty. This is unacceptable. Our pensioners in Stockport and across the UK deserve better.”

WHERE WE STAND – IMMIGRATION

Britain can benefit from immigration, but not uncontrolled immigration.

We want to continue to attract the brightest and the best people to the UK but with control on the overall numbers coming here. Since 1997, Labour’s open-door immigration policy has seen the largest and most sustained rise in immigration in our history.

A Conservative government will reduce net immigration back to the levels of the 1990s – tens of thousands a year, instead of the hundreds of thousands a year under Labour.

PLEDGE TO HELP STOCKPORT’S CANCER SUFFERERS GET THE DRUGS THEY DESERVE

Cancer patients in Stockport will get access to drugs that they are currently denied under Labour if the Conservatives win the general election.

Under our plans, the NHS would save £200 million because Conservatives will stop Labour’s jobs tax on employers. This NHS saving would be used to pay for drugs which have been blocked by the Government’s quango, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). In Stockport NHS Foundation Trust which employs 4,750 staff, the cost of Labour’s increase in Employers’ National Insurance contributions – the jobs tax – is estimated to be £712,500.

Britain has more cancer deaths per head than Buglaria. Under the Conservatives, the money that would have been eaten up by Labour’s jobs tax would go straight to a new Cancer Drugs Fund.

Stephen Holland said, “Last year I signed Cancer Research UK’s Cancer Commitment as a personal commitment. There is a clear choice at this election: Labour and their jobs tax that will take £200 million out of the NHS budget; or the Conservatives who will stop the jobs tax and use the savings in the NHS budget to create a Cancer Drugs Fund.”

THREE THINGS ABOUT THE LIB DEMS

The Lib Dems:

• Oppose an annual cap on immigration, but want a regional immigration policy and an amnesty to allow illegal immigrants to stay in this country
• Will scrap our Trident nuclear deterrent and have no plan to keep Britain safe at a time when rogue states are in danger of getting nuclear weapons
• Want to get rid of prison sentences for burglars and drug dealers so that they won’t even go to prison for six months

Stephen said, “Locally the Lib Dems are also hitting Stockport’s residents hard in the pocket by setting the highest council tax in Greater Manchester.”

Remember a vote for the Lib Dems on May 6th will let Gordon Brown back into 10 Downing Street.

2010 GENERAL ELECTION IN STOCKPORT

This general election is only going to produce two results: five more years of Gordon Brown’s tired government making things worse, or a Conservative government led by David Cameron.

If you want a greener, more family friendly, liberal future for Britain, then you need to vote Conservative on May 6th.

The current number of MPs held by the main parties makes it clear – the general election is a two horse race! Remember a vote for another party on May 6th will only let Gordon Brown into Number 10 through the back door.

FACT – At every single parliamentary election in Stockport since the seat was created in 1983, only the Conservatives have either won Stockport or been the main challengers to Labour.

Vote for change on May 6th.

THE CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO 2010

Today we launched our Manifesto: “An Invitation to join the Government of Britain”.

Directly elected police chiefs. The power to sack your MP. Veto council tax rises. Save your local pub or post office…. and so it goes on.

We won’t get the economy moving with a jobs tax and higher government spending – we need to help businesses create jobs.

We won’t solve our social problems with more big government – we need to build the Big Society where families are strong and communities are safe.

We’ll never change politics if we leave it to the Westminster politicians – we need to give people real power and control over their lives.

Stephen said, “We will give people much more say over the things that affect their daily lives.

“The Conservative Party has led the way in sorting out the mess of MPs’ expenses. In government we will go further, by cutting the size of Parliament, cutting the scope of Whitehall, and cutting the cost of politics. We will make politics more local, more transparent and more accountable so that we restore faith in our political system.”

Click here for more:

http://m-cp.trueclarity.co.uk/Policy/Manifesto.aspx

FIGHTING BACK AGAINST CRIME IN STOCKPORT

A Conservative Government will fight back against crime in Stockport by:

 - making it clear that anyone found guilty of carrying a knife in public can expect to go to prison

 - changing the rules to give householders greater protection if they have to defend themselves against intruders

 - reducing the amount of paperwork that the police have to deal with, and get them back out on the beat

 - providing the new prison places we need and introducing a system of honesty in sentencing

Stephen said, “A Conservative Government will put the rights of law-abiding citizens before the rights of criminals. Above all, we will get more bobbies out on the beat by freeing our police of the huge amount of paperwork they have to complete under Labour.”

A CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT WILL GUARANTEE A GP IN YOUR AREA OF STOCKPORT FROM 8AM TO 8PM, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK

At present, many people in Stockport cannot see a GP when they need to because Labour took responsibility for access to primary care outside normal working hours from family doctors and gave it to bureaucrats in Primary Care Trusts.

Nearly a quarter of GP practices are now closed beyond the normal surgery hours of 8am to 6:30pm, five days a week. 

A Conservative government will give people the certainty they need: our 2010 manifesto includes plans to change GPs’ contracts to ensure that everyone has access to a GP in their area from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. Responsibility for managing how patients access care outside of normal surgery opening hours will be given back to GPs.