Local Election Candidate for Southey

Secretary, Press Officer and  Election Agent

Eamonn Ward

I live just outside the ward in a terraced house off Leppings Lane. I am the Election Agent and Secretary for Sheffield Green Party. I was the Campaign Manager for the Green Party in Yorkshire & the Humber in the European Elections in 2009.

Our local communities are under threat and I support the “Living Streets” campaign for residential areas where people can reach a post office, chemist, bank and a food shop within a 15 minute walk of where they live.  The Green council group are working hard in this area.  They got funding for 10 extra pedestrian crossings in the council budget for 2008/9 and it was their motion which enabled Sheffield to become the first city to opt into the Sustainable Communities Act in 2008.  More supermarkets opening in and close to Southey ward will mean the inevitable loss of local shops and add to traffic problems on key routes.

The BNP is a divisive, bigoted, sectarian, nasty party, with no practical solutions to the economic crisis, mass unemployment, climate chaos or the corruption of parliament.  It has a sick history of scapegoating and vilifying black, Jewish, gay and Muslim people.  I support the work of Unite Against Fascism whose work in the ward ensures that voters know the truth about the BNP and what they stand for.  I am pleased that the BNP are not standing in this council election and have only two candidates across the city.

Cuts to vital public services, benefits and pensions are not needed if the government:

• Closes massive tax loopholes

• Gets more people into work

• Cuts Trident nuclear missiles

• Taxes the money markets

• Taxes bank profits and cuts bonuses

Greens say create 1 million new jobs by investing in renewable energy, public transport and housing. Scrap tuition fees and reinstate the Educational Maintenance Allowance.

The Green Party says NO to cuts and YES to investment in jobs.