ELECTION COMMUNICATION • DERBYSHIRE DALES • 7 MAY 2015
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YOUR GREEN PARTY CAND
IAN WOOD
DERBYSHIRE DALES
MAY 7
7
GENERA L ELECTIO N
SAY NO TO POLITICS AS USUAL • Protect the NHS • Ban fracking • free education Railways in public hands • £10 an hour minimum wage • NO to bedroom tax
A PUBLIC NHS – WE WILL: • Fight for a publicly funded NHS free at the point of use and end the creeping privatisation of its services. • Make mental health a much higher priority with resources to match this status.
A FAIR ECONOMY – WE WILL:
IAN says ... I am a 58-year-old journalist and former lawyer. I live in Bakewell with my wife and two of our four children. We Greens have a fundamental conviction that if humans behave unsustainably we will exhaust our planet. This colours every single policy we have. We wouldn’t ask families to lumber themselves with a lifetime of debt just to educate themselves, or to over-borrow to live in decent housing, or to use payday loans to buy food and pay energy bills. We’d stimulate local trade, create hundreds of thousands of green jobs, and make the living wage of £10 an hour the law.
• End austerity and restore the public sector to create over one million good jobs. This will be paid for with a wealth tax on the top 1%, a Robin Hood tax on the banks and the closure of tax loopholes. • A minimum wage of £10 an hour by 2020.
DECENT HOMES – WE WILL: • Abolish the unfair Bedroom Tax. • Build 500,000 new social rented homes and bring empty homes back into use. • Introduce rent caps and longer tenancies for renters.
A SAFE CLIMATE – WE WILL:
Coalition tax revenues are low, to this Government’s surprise. The rich don’t pay their way, and the poor don’t earn enough for income tax. The Green Party would change all that.
• Take serious action to ensure global temperatures do not rise further.
On 7 May you can vote for a decent future. You won’t be alone, I assure you.
• Invest in renewable energy, flood defences and building insulation.
GET IN TOUCH John Youatt (01629) 636241 facebook.com/dalesgreens dalesgreens@gmail.com
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MAY 7
7
GENERA L ELECTIO N
• Phase out fossil fuel based energy generation and nuclear power.
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