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Conservative Party

The three Conservative Candidates standing for Toothill Ward at the election on
1 9th March are Andy Blunt from Freshbrook, Dave Crew from Toothill and Nick Jansen
from Westlea.
Andy is married, 32, and is a production coordination engineer with a local electronics
firm; Dave is married, 34, has three children and is a Master Baker at a local bakery;
Nick is married; 35, has a son and is a heating engineer with British Rail. All three
have lived in Swindon for a considerable time; Andy for about twenty years.
Each candidate is intensely interested in your well being and consider the following
are just some of the things needing attention in this area:
1. Secondary schooling for our increasing population.
2. Decent roads and footpaths, adequately lit.
3. Much improved medical facilities for each area.
4. Better public transport.
5. Better community facilities including sports facilities for the youth in the
area.
6. Better council house maintenance.
7. A greater prescence of a resident Police Force to improve law and order.
8. The need to control heavy traffic through residential or village areas,
particularly Shaw and Washpool.
9. More help for those wishing to buy their council house; help which the Labour
controlled council will not give and which your local Conservative branch has
already given to many people here in this Ward on the 16th February.

However, what is it that are intensely interested in? Important amongst many
things must surely be money. The Labour controlled Council spends your money like
water and is continually committing itself to spending even more.
Here are some facts :
1. Thamesdown's District Rate is the highest in Wiltshire and ,y ou, moving out of
North Wilts, will have to catch up with it.
2. There will be a 51% increase in that rate next April wheras North Wilts rates
are not going up at all.
3. The Brunel Centre is to cost the ratepayer £1,200,000 next year, so the rates
go even higher.
4. The Council's direct Labour force gets all work contracts and no competitive
tenders from private contractors are accepted, so the rates go even higher .
5. This Council claims it is broke and then plans to spend £50,000 on each of
several new refuse lorries that it does not need; worse still, they plan to
spend millions on Arts Centres that we cannot at present afford, so the rates
go even higher .
If you feel these things don't matter or don't affect you because you live in a
council house then consider this:
1. You will be .a citizen of the Borough.
2. You do pay rates, even in a council house.
3. The shops where you spend your money on clothes, food, televisions and holidays
all pay greater rates than any individual and, so, you have to pay more for
those goods and services you buy. Prices are higher.
4. Waste of money derived from rates or any source means less money to provide
the amenities you and your family need.

These matters are of vital concern when related to the welfare of every resident of
the Toothill Ward whether he is a houseowner or not.
The three Conservative candidates are well placed to listen to and understand all
your views; unlike the Labour Party, whose candidates all come from Toothi.11 Urban
Village, two even from the same street. The Conservative candidates come from each one
of those Urban Villages. Andy lives at 22 Chalgrove Field, Freshbrook; Dave lives
at 36 Bodiam Drive, Toothill and Nick lives at 6 Moresby Close, 'Nestlea. Andy,
especially, also has close links with the outlying areas such as Shaw and Washpool.
The Tory team is more representative of the whole area and intend, as councillors,
to make themselves available to listen to your problems by holding regular
'surgeries' within easy reach of every elector in the Ward and you will be encouraged
to come to those sessions or to make direct contact with any of the three if you are
unable to drop in.
Remember, vote for the three Conservative candidates on March 19th and help to bring
a more realistic approach into the conduct of local affairs. Your future and that
of your children depends on it.