It is a great honour and privilege for me to report that this evening I was selected as the Prospective Conservative MP for the new Worsley & Eccles South constituency.
This is both a big challenge and a huge opportunity and I am looking forward to it. Local residents across the constituency from Little Hulton to Cadishead deserve a representative in Parliament who looks after their interests and I hope to show in the coming weeks and months that they would be much better served by a proactive Conservative Member of Parliament.
I shall blog more when, well, it has all sunk in!
My heartfelt congratulation to you on a personal level. More importantly to the people of Worsley and Eccles South who have got the that has proven he can bring real change, and the one person Labour really fear.
My comgratulations also,well if i take up the offer also we should have a good fight. Well if we are both in the frame at least we should take the votes away from whats her name?
Regards Joe
Congratulations, Iain.
Congratulations Iain on your selection. The residents of Worsley and Eccles South now have a great oppertunity to elect someone who will be a real champion for the Community and to have their interests fairly and well represented at Westminster.
Iain,
I’m interested in interviewing you about this new position and to get your thoughts on the issues facing your ward this year. Please get back to me if you’re interested.
Tom Rodgers
SalfordOnline
e: tom@salfordonline.com
t: 0161 445 9325
Ditto.
I daresay I’ll invite you to answer questions (by letter or internet) about what your position is on a range of contemporary socio-political issues later this year Iain [whether or not I go for Worsley or Salford myself].
Once again Iain congratulations on your candidacy, and may I wish you well for what will be a hectic and stressful period in the coming months! All the best and good luck.
Well done! Inspired choice by the association.
Well at last some good news amidst all the doom and gloom. Well you shall have my vote a local guy for a local job, works in Altrincham with Graham who lived and breathed his constituency.
Congratulations Iain – I know you will pour your heart and soul into the campaign, and wish you the very best of luck.
Iain
I’m absolutely thrilled that you have been selected for your home seat. I know from experience that there is no greater honour. By the way, your life is abou to change. Well done.
Give me a call on my mobile. I have a proposal for you..
Nigel
Thanks for your kind words everyone. Tom – I will be in touch.
A quick message to Joe. Barbara Keeley is your MP who is doing a splendid job for Worsley and Eccles South.
I guess we will start to see Ian all over the place now pointing at
Railway signage and standing outside parks and empty libaries.
You’ll have to wait untill 2027 to get down to London Ian.
On that high speed link(payed for by CUTS CUTS CUTS CUTS CUTS)
Not if iget there first,i have just sent Martin out with the camera.
Regards
joe
Its good to see some young blood on the council Joe!
Ian did once try to get me to join him on the Conservative side of the fence but I’m afraid Labour is in my blood.
I have not decided yet if I will get my own camera out.
Regards
Andrew
I see Andrew wants to talk about CUTS. Fine. So a quick quiz…
St George’s RC High School is successful, oversubscribed and plays a key role at the heart of the local community in Walkden and Little Hulton. Which Party wants to close it down?
The maternity unit at Salford Royal (Hope) Hospital is rated as one of the very best in the country and serves parents and children across the City of Salford and beyond. Which Party is going to close it down?
A large sum of money was earmarked for Metrolink expansion 3b. In 2005 it was cancelled. Which Party took the money away?
Patricroft Post Office was a busy and vibrant place provided a vital service for local residents in Patricroft and the wider Eccles area. Which Party closed it?
So, Andrew, don’t lecture me about cuts. The Conservative Party in Worsley & Eccles South stand up for local residents. It is the Labour Party that close things down and cut services.
Iain,
An interesting quiz, I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more of those on all manner of topics during your candidacy.
I think the cuts that Andrew refers to will be the somewhat wider cuts in education, health and social services that a Conservative government will make – and have historically been known to make – in favour of cutting taxes for the wealthiest.
On the local matters you raise – St George’s faces closure on the basis of falling numbers of Catholic pupils across Salford. I have no idea why St George’s got the short straw, however would you be able to tell us which school the Tories would close instead faced with this decision?
The maternity unit is not closing as far as I am aware, but is being downsized to a midwife lead unit, similar to other maternity units affected by the changes. Babies will still be born in Salford, at Hope Hospital. I was present at some of the meetings whilst these changes were negotiated and I can tell you categorically that even you would have been proud of the fight put up on behalf of Hope by our Labour MPs to keep the neo-natal and other extra maternity services in Salford.
I am not well enough informed on the detail of the other issues to comment on them – but I will endeavour to find out and correct you if possible.
Tom.
Ian Well Done.Debate is good.But I need answers!
St Georges I agree is an excellent school I have asked my MP to look
at this decision.I have signed up to every campaign to keep the school in its present format.
My Daughter was born at Hope in 2001. Salford Royal is an excellent
Hospital providing great services to patients both local and national.Indeed I have recently spent time in the excellent Acute
Stroke Unit myself.
I was for the Congestion Charge I wanted better transport for the whole of Manchester and wasn’t just blinkered to the whats in it for me view.(But now that 70% of the 50% that voted have rejected it I hvae asked my MP to pressure the Transport cheifs for more for Walkden Swinton Eccles Irlam Stations and better bus services)
Who was it that created Railtrack and brought in deregulation on the buses.(you may be young but not that young to forget)
I admit to not knowing about the Patricroft Post office issue.
But let me ask this question again Ian! Will you bring everything
back if you got your chance and how would you pay for it all?
Give me some policies some meat on the subjects where will George
get the money from? Is he going on another boat trip with a rich
man?
I promise to keep on backing St Georges and fighting for better local transport whilst you try your hardest to seem like a new face
of the same old Conservative Party that are just looking after themselves. What would have to give for the freeze on council tax.
Come on Ian come clean with all the planned CUTS CUTS CUTS just
who in Little Hulton would suffer, which facilities would you cut back on in Walkden?