RUGBY GREEN COUNCILLORS WILL STAND FOR!
1. Putting
Rugby First! - The Green Party has been
transforming politics in towns and cities across the UK. Green
Councillors have saved post offices, made streets safer, and are well known for
working hard for local communities because they believe in putting the
community first!
2.
Greens believe Rugby could be a Green Jobs Boom Town and Protect 1000
workers jobs at Alstom in Rugby! - Rugby
Green Party is concerned about the rumours (and also cuts to orders to local
firms by Alstrom) of a closure threat or severe cuts back at the Alstom plant
(affecting 1000 Rugby workers) – which would be a disaster for Rugby. Greens in
Rugby firmly believe that this plant instead could aid Rugby to be at the very
front of green technology and alternative energy production in the UK with
Rugby Council and Government support.
Greens say:
·
Instead of importing turbines and equipment from
abroad -- produce them in Rugby!
·
usE THE SKILLS OF RUGBY WORKERS TO BUILD TURBINES and
alternative energy products!
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We beliEve 1 miilon Green Jobs could be
created in the UK and Rugby workers has real skills that could be built on.
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ONly a Green Councillor has the
imagination and will to demand Rugby council promote our town as a centre for
alternative energy!
3. No cuts
to Jobs and services – A real threat hangs over Rugby,
losing core services and facing mass unemployment to pay for the Bankers
Gambling Debts! Instead the Greens say; tackle
the £120bn of tax evasion every year, Tax the Bankers bonuses, Scrap the money
pit that is PFI and end the £100m a year of ‘charity status’ in tax relief to
elitist Public Schools like Rugby School.
GREENS SAY:
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Why should we be expected to pick up the
tab instead of the very wealthy? The Green Party and our Leader Caroline Lucas
MP are the only major political party that rejects the flawed economics of the
Cuts!
4. Save St
Cross and the NHS - STOP NHS Privatisation – Rugby
Green Party is calling for local people to use ‘people power’ to fight the privatisation of the NHS – started by
New Labour and now carried on by the CONDEMs.
5. A
Sustainable, Green and Efficient Rugby – £millions
a year could be saved by the local council and local people and also provide
and save jobs in Rugby. BY;
o Sustainable
purchasing from local groups of companies -
instead of big business.
o Green and
efficient generation of energy needs - by
installing renewable energy technology on council buildings and similarly
helping local communities to produce their own cheap and sustainable energy.
6.
Cutting fuels bills by providing free Insulation for many homes in Rugby
– It’s been done by other local authorities through
Green Party pressure by making the utility companies pay
7. Greens
demand a Health Survey –Concerns locally exist about perceptions of higher
than normal cancers, blood disorders and Asthma’s in parts of Rugby.
8. Rail not
Road – The Green Party wants
renationalisation of the railways instead of the travel chaos that exists now!
– Its also a cleaner way to move goods with 1 train = 125 Lorries in levels of
carbon omissions.
9. Homes for
people not rats – Rugby Greens are calling for
action over the large number of empty houses that are being left to ‘rack and
ruin’ – Nearly 100 just in New Bilton and 1.132 across Rugby.
GREENS SAY:
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ITS A SCANDAL THAT OUR COUNCIL IS NOT TAKING URGANT ACTION TO CLEAN UP
OUR STREETS AND ALSO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR LOCAL PEOPLE
10.
Stop the plan to build at the Masts Site – its ill conceive, a bog standard building plan and unsustainable! If we
are going to build anything at the Masts site – let it be Wind Turbines on a
‘like for like’ basis on part of the site to provide cheap electricity for
local people and also give consideration to building a pleasant wooded green
burial site/crematorium in the area.
A REAL CHANGE – NOT MORE OF THE SAME!
Printed and Promoted by Roy Sandison (60 Campbell
St, Rugby CV21 2HZ) on Behalf of all Green Party Candidates in Rugby.
rugbygreenparty@gmail.co
