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 teach in a local school. 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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Isle Farmers Meeting

Submitted by andrew on Tue, 09/03/2010 - 15:29.

There has been so much going on of late, I am finding it quite hard to keep up with my blog so I shall try to catch up over the next few days.

Last week I took some time out to meet with farmers on the Isle of Axholme, courtesy of Caroline Ellis of the NFU. I've done a couple of these meetings through the NFU and have also arranged my own farmers forum with Shadow Minister Jim Paice MP. It is always great meeting with farmers as it is such an important area of policy.

As usual, quite a wide range of topics were raised and they had some genuine concerns which I shall be more than happy to take up if elected. For me, it is vital that we support farmers in staying in business and we have to do that in various ways.

Labour Get Nasty

Submitted by andrew on Thu, 04/03/2010 - 09:16.

I always said Labour would get nasty in the run up to the election and they are. Poor Keith Moore, their hapless Councillor in Goole, has penned a poisonous letter to the Goole Times this week regarding donations from non-doms.

No mention of Labour's non-dom donor Lord Paul. A close friend of the Prime Minister who apparently gave money to Brown's leadership campaign. He has just been made a Privy Councillor, no connection of course though ...

It looks as though I am going to have to start reminding local people about which party has an MP in the region who is facing prison for allegedly abusing the expenses system. Who was it who was claiming taxpayers money to pay to rent to that same MP ...

Labour should be more careful with their language.

Latest news stories

Wind Farm Traffic Success?

Submitted by andrew on Thu, 18/02/2010 - 12:11.

Andrew will be meeting once again with the developers of the Keadby Wind farm, RES Ltd, next week for a further update on the proposal to open up an access route to the site off the A18. Andrew and local Conservative Councillors John Briggs, Caroline Fox and Gordon Megson, have been working hard to ensure that the alternative route is opened up so as to save Old Goole, Swinefleet, Ealand and Eastoft from thousands of construction vehicles.

Andrew Percy says, "I wrote to residents at the beginning of February to let them know that Network Rail had contacted me to confirm that they were now formally considering the proposal by RES Ltd to construct a bridge over their railway line which would open up the alternative route off the A18.

"I also reported that RES had confirmed to me that, subject to the negotiations with Network Rail, ‘RES are confident that either all, or almost all, construction traffic would avoid Keadby and Ealand, while no construction traffic would go through Eastoft, Swinefleet or Old Goole’.

"I am therefore hopeful that I will have more good news for residents shortly and I look forward to meeting with RES next week."

Labour Seek to Double Council Tax Rise

Submitted by andrew on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 21:01.

Andrew Percy has reacted with anger at an attempt by Labour Councillors to double the Council tax rise for residents in the Goole and Snaith area. The East Riding Council met today to set the Council Tax for the next year with Labour Councillors trying to force a higher than inflation rise of 3% on hard pressed taxpayers.

Andrew Percy says, "With unemployment in our area still rising, and with the Humber area suffering the hardest from Gordon Brown's recession, you would have thought that Labour Councillors would have wanted to give hard pressed taxpayers a break. Pensioners in particular feel Council Tax rises especially hard, and after 13 years of putting up the bills of pensioners, Labour have clearly learned nothing!

It is only thanks to the vigilance of Conservative Councillors that this year's rise will be kept to 1.5%, well below the current rate of inflation. I don't always agree with everything the East Riding Council does but they have certainly made the right decision on this year's Council Tax.

The East Riding receives some of the worst funding in England from the Labour Government, meaning that keeping Council Tax rises down is no mean feat."