Category Archives: Borough elections 2011

Candidates reply to Cllr Bell’s fanciful ideas

Re: Should Glossop move next door?

What Cllr Bell said sums up his approach to representing the people of Old Glossop: whimsical at best! Whilst the general argument has some long term merits and ignoring the fact that the changes would require an Act of Parliament, is this what currently troubles the people of Old Glossop ward? Glossopdale? the Borough? I think not.

Cllr Bell - Should Glossop move next door?

The Glossop Chronicle article: another of Cllr Ivan Bell's fanciful ideas. (Please click to enlarge.)

When people are thinking about the impacts of the cuts in the provision of services provided by our local councils, in the wake of the devastating cuts to their funding settlements, Ivan is pointing out that Tameside’s ‘roads are better’ than ours. Instead of working to improve our area he seems to think it to be more constructive to covet what our neighbours have; bizarrely seeming to ignore the sheer complexity and length of a process to redraw the boundaries of four council areas which lie in three counties and three separate regions.

There’s a saying that a society can be judged on the basis of how it treats its most vulnerable members, but these cuts will disproportionately affected the young and older people of the ward seeing many service withdrawn or decreased especially regarding care for the elderly and transport, with the withdrawal of half price travel into Manchester with the Gold Card for the ward’s elderly cards a proposed cut a perfect example of this. This is not fair and what does it say about our society?

We feel that Old Glossop deserves better, with people that can put forward serious suggestions and have some influence in the decision-making processes of the Council unlike the incumbent members.

Damien Greenhalgh and Garry Parvin
Labour Candidates for Old Glossop Ward

NB – The article “Should Glossop move nextdoor?” can be found online on the Glossop Chronicle’s website here

UPDATE:

Our letter was published in this week’s (27.01.2011) Glossop Chronicle on page 8 – the letters page:

Should Glossop move next door?

Launch of Candidate Facebook Group

Today I created a group of Facebook to seek people’s support to elect Garry and I to the two council seats in Old Glossop Ward which we will be campaigning for in the Borough Election in May 2011, this can be access here

Damien and Garry 4 Old Glossop

Today at a meeting of Glossopdale Labour Party I, along with Garry Parvin, was selected to stand as the Labour Candidate for the Old Glossop Ward of High Peak Borough election in May next year.

The process of being named one of the two final candidates involved being selected by the local Glossopdale Party and the High Peak Party as a whole, through a series of interviews and votes.

I’m very grateful to Glossopdale Labour members for selecting me and very excited to get campaigning to help minimise the effects of cuts on essential service for the people of Old Glossop. Both Garry and I feel it is about time someone spoke up in Old Glossop against the poor decisions of the Conservative controlled Borough Council (and County Council).

If you’re a Old Glossop ward resident I want to hear about your priorities for your area – if you’ve got an issue you would like to bring up then please email me on damien@labourhighpeak.info. You can also find me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/damientg.