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Meanwhile use the links below to find out
how your part of Reading is better off with Labour;
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Or check out Martin
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Using your vote for Labour at this election
is more important than ever.
These are just a few of the good reasons
for voting Labour in Reading .
LABOUR’S WORKING TO MAKE READING A
BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. The hard work
and vision of Reading’s award winning Labour Council
has put Reading in the premier league of UK towns and cities
for employment, shopping, sport and ‘quality of life’.
Here are ten good reasons for voting Labour in this year's
local elections
- With Labour you get more for your money. Reading provides
better services than neighbouring councils and still manages
to keep council tax rises below the levels of its neighbours.
- Labour’s vision has already delivered The Oracle,
Green Park and the Madejski Stadium – the Tories said
it could never happen. With Labour there’s more regeneration
to come.
- Our local economy is strong and stable with Labour, bringing
thousands of new jobs, low inflation, low mortgages and
low interest rates — under the Tories Reading suffered
from recession and unemployment with 15% interest rates
and over 2,000 homes repossessed.
- Only a Labour Council will continue to provide free bus
passes for Reading's pensioners – the best scheme of
its kind in the country and not offered by Wokingham Tories
or West Berkshire Liberals.
- Labour is investing in your local services. Investing
more on litter and street cleaning. Putting more money in
to deal with abandoned cars and graffiti, improving local
schools and care for the elderly as well as rebuilding the
Royal Berkshire Hospital. The council continues to win many
millions of pounds for Reading from government grants, the
Lottery and business at no extra cost to local taxpayers.
- Labour is cracking down on crime and disorder and getting
results – with street drinking banned in central Reading,
holiday schemes to keep kids out of trouble, and campaigns
to make sure Reading gets more police officers to tackle
crime. Under the Tories crime doubled and police numbers
fell.
- Labour has protected the riverside and Reading's open
spaces from the developers at Kennet Meadows and the Tilehurst
Allotments and is working to ensure that those areas receive
long term protection for future generations.
- Labour has won Government and Business funds for new,
better, more modern bus services to ease traffic congestion,
and won £17m for roads and transport including improvements
to M4 Junction 11, the IDR and the road safety schemes have
saved many lives.
- Labour has protected Reading’s heritage — the
Town Hall, Concert Hall and popular Museum of Reading have
been magnificently restored and opened to the public –
the Tories wanted to turn it into offices. Now the Forbury
Gardens is to benefit from Lottery cash.
- Labour brought popular festivals like WOMAD to Reading
and enabled more than 40,000 residents to enjoy sports and
leisure discounts with the Passport to Leisure scheme.
DON'T LET THE TORIES DRAG OUR TOWN BACK INTO THE SECOND DIVISION!
Promoted by Reading and District Labour Party, St Giles House
10 Church Street, Reading RG1 2SD.
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