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Please find attached to this post our Rugby Labour Manifesto. Please click on the link here > Manifesto for 2022.
RUGBY LABOUR’S LOCAL ELECTION MANIFESTO LAUNCHED: ‘A COMMON SENSE PLAN FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY’
• Common sense, pragmatic ideas to strengthen our economy and our community
• 6 Pledges:
1. accessible housing
2. better infrastructure
3. safer neighbourhoods
4. a reimagined town centre
5. action on heritage
6. a green future
Our Manifesto boosts the final stages of our local election campaign across all wards
Friday 8 April 2022
Rugby Labour Party today launched its manifesto for the Rugby Borough Council elections to be held on 5 May. The document – ‘A Common Sense Plan For The Future Of Our Community’ – sets out six bold and costed pledges across a range of policy areas.
The manifesto explains how a Labour-run council would work to strengthen the community and the economy of the town and its neighbouring areas, after years of Conservative rule nationally and locally, that has left voters facing rising taxes, bills and crime, cuts to public services, a town centre abandoned to decline, and families £2,620 worse off as they face the Conservative Cost of Living Crisis.
On heritage, Labour would match residents’ pride in their town with a new vision of a friendly and diverse culture that encourages more visitors, businesses and events into the town through better use of existing spaces.
Labour plans a radical reimagining of the town centre that highlights Rugby’s unique character and celebrates its shops and boutique enterprises. The party would audit empty buildings to identify those that could be brought back into use in innovative ways to boost the local economy and regenerate the town, such as providing a hub for self-employed people, small businesses and others, and a separate hub where all council and voluntary services could be accessed in one place.
Labour would address the acute lack of housing for people wanting to get on the housing ladder or needing affordable or social rented accommodation. This includes establishing a Council-owned Homes for Rent company, working as a not-for-profit enterprise, renting properties at prices in line with current council properties, with the money being reinvested in future house building.
The manifesto sets out Labour’s ideas to tackle the lack of investment by Conservatives locally and nationally in adequate infrastructure for a rapidly growing town like Rugby. Labour will hold the Conservatives to account for failing to insist on sufficient roads, schools and health services and is demanding better regulation by the council of Houses in Multiple Occupancy in the town centre. The party will continue to call for services to be brought back to St. Cross Hospital and more locally-based ambulances.
Labour’s measures on the environment would boost the local economy and tackle climate change simultaneously, through buying council products from local suppliers to reduce carbon footprint, creating jobs and apprenticeships by insulating homes and switching to local energy producers. To tackle fly-tipping Labour aims to create local council funds for each council ward to provide support and equipment for local groups to carry out litter-picking and create community gardens. The party would expand, maintain and protect urban green spaces in part by creating a register of community assets.
To create safer neighbourhoods Labour aims to address problems caused by years of cuts to police under the Tories, by instigating a community partnership-based model for tackling crime. The party aims to establish community forums in different parts of the borough for residents, police and councillors to highlight crime and anti-social behaviour ‘hotspots’ in their local area. Labour will also build on its work taking community-led initiatives to key stakeholders, such as on restoring streetlights.
Speaking about Rugby Labour’s manifesto launch, Borough Council Labour Group Leader Cllr Maggie O’Rourke said:
“Twelve years of Tory rule nationally, aided and abetted by local Tory councillors, have shown that the Conservatives are not on the side of working people and their families. People now face a Conservative cost of living crisis with prices, bills and taxes up and twelve years of Tory cuts biting harder than ever.
“The Conservatives are not living up to their responsibilities to ensure that people are secure, prosperous and respected – they’ve broken their contract with voters and damaged trust in politics. It doesn’t have to be like this, and the May 5 local elections are an opportunity for voters to send a message to the Tories.
“Rugby Labour’s manifesto sets out an imaginative and innovative programme that we believe can rebuild the trust of voters in Rugby. It is a manifesto that offers hope…for a better future. Its fully costed pledges show that a Labour-run Borough Council has the ideas, energy and vision to lead a renewal of our town centre, to champion our borough’s proud heritage, to address voters’ deep concerns about the issues that matter, whether on providing affordable housing, ensuring that our infrastructure keeps pace with the town’s rapid growth, tackling crime and anti-social behaviour, and doing more for a better and more sustainable environment.
“Our talented and committed Labour candidates have the right experience and values to work alongside the community to build a better future for Rugby. Our manifesto shows that Labour is a Party that is on the side of voters. A Party of common sense and decency.”
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NOTES TO EDITORS
• For media enquiries, please contact Rugby Labour’s media lead, John Slinger, on 07715 399590, johnslingerlabour@gmail.com
• Read the manifesto at http://www.rugbylabour.co.uk/documents-forms/
• Website: https://www.rugbylabour.co.uk
• Facebook (for access to candidates’ campaign pages): https://www.facebook.com/rugbylabour
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rugby_Labour
Please find our Manifesto for 2022 for Rugby Borough Council. 1. accessible housing 2. better infrastructure 3. safer neighbourhoods 4. a reimagined town centre 5. action on heritage 6. a green future
