Andrew Percy - Prospective MP for Brigg & Goole

I am the Conservative candidate for the constituency of Brigg and Goole. The constituency covers a vast area stretching from the former West Riding marshland villages around Goole, to Brigg and the villages of the Lincolnshire Wolds in the east, to the Isle of Axholme in the South where the founder of Methodism John Wesley was born. Brigg and Goole covers parts of both East Yorkshire, where I have lived all my life, and North Lincolnshire where I now supply teach in local Secondary Schools. Having strong family ties on both sides of the Humber, I am delighted to be standing for election in an area I can genuinely call home. Labour hung on by just 2,800 votes at the last election making this one of the key seats at the next election.

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MP Uses Taxpayers Money on Self Promotion - Again!

Submitted by andrew on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 15:10.

Oh dear, Labour just do not get public anger over expenses, do they. As if it wasn't bad enough that last year the local Labour MP spent nearly £10,000 of taxpayer's money on self-promotion we now have another example of it today.

I have just been sent a copy, from a very angry resident, of another communication funded by taxpayers which has been delivered in the south of the Isle of Axholme. Yet again, it has been funded from the taxpayer via the Communications Allowance. Why won't the local MP learn, he can't get away with using our money to promote himself locally. It's just not right.

I suppose what makes it worse is that most of the issues in the newsletter are ones we have updated people on already, via our non-taxpayer funded communications. Some of them are weeks out of date. It just proves what I have been told by certain people within the Labour Party locally, they have no network locally and so rely on taxpayer funded communications instead.

I certainly won't be using taxpayers money to try to buy the next election. It's a shame Labour seem happy to try though.

 

What a Strange World!

Submitted by andrew on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 13:56.

They really can't get anything right this Government can they. I saw Brown's big speech on Monday and was absolutely staggered to watch him, after 12 years in power, basically admit that they had got it wrong and basically failed to deliver in a range of policy areas. As a teacher I was aghast at his rubbishing of targets. Hello, isn't this what most of have been saying for years?

It got worse though when he got to the end of his speech without saying how any of it would be paid for. If that wasn't bad enough today we see that one of Brown's key pledges, local houses for local people, will actually be illegal under Labour's new Equality Bill. Just like British jobs for British workers, its all spin. That is a real shame as I have always argued that local authority housing allocations should be able to take account of strong links to the area. The Housing Board I sit on has tried to achieve this through discretionary allocations but its not perfect.

Simon Hoggart in the Guardian yesterday morning offered the best analysis of Brown's way of running, or rather ruining, the country -

"We are in a strange, dream like world in which everything is promised but almost nothing happens."

Quite!

Latest news stories

Worlaby Wind Farm Meeting

Submitted by andrew on Thu, 25/06/2009 - 16:21.

Andrew joined local residents and members of Saxby Wold Against Turbines at a meeting in Worlaby this week to discuss the proposed wind farm at Saxby Wold.

Andrew reports, "I was delighted to be invited to attend this meeting which was a follow on from the meeting I attended in Bonby last week. There was a good turn out at the meeting with many of those present expressing concerns about the proposal.

In particular, there are concerns about noise from the turbines which has been well documented at other wind farm developments. Personally, I am very sceptical about the amount of turbines which are being proposed locally as my own view is that turbines should really be set off-shore.

I also support Conservative proposals to re-direct some of the subsidies which are presently directed at wind farms, into developing alternative renewable energy sources such as geo-thermal energy."

 

Power Power Power

Submitted by andrew on Thu, 18/06/2009 - 21:53.

I don't normally blog in the news section of my website but as I haven't updated for a while I am blogging in this section.

I have just come back from the second public meeting in two days which relates to the generation of power here in the constituency. Last night I was in Luddington attending a public meeting on the proposed extraction of Coal Bed Methanefrom the Isle of Axholme. This evening I was in Bonby for a meeting relating to the proposal for a wind farm at Saxby Wold.

Both of the meetings were well attended and there were particularly strong feelings expressed at the Bonby meeting. I personally am very sceptical about the large number of wind farm applications that we are getting in North Lincs and East Yorkshire. However, it is of course up to local people to make their minds up and so I am doing everything I can to make sure residents know how to put submissions in as part of the planning process.

The Conservatives have argued for some of the subsidy that goes into wind farms to be directed towards other technologies such as geo-thermal energy. That is exactly what we should do as we have got to accept that filling the landscape with lots of wind turbines is not the answer.