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 Hello, My name is Luke Mackenzie and I am the Conservative Councillor for Vange in Basildon. I am 21 years old and currently studying Economics with Politics at university. I would like to thank everybody who voted for me. I am proud to represent to people of Vange on Basildon Council. I am there to deal with any issue within my power, and I will work hard for the residents of Vange.
William Hangue MP Visits Vange 
William Hague MP. the former leader of the Conservative party, Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet visited Vange on the 03.06.2008 to see the hard work that is being done to improve the lives of Vange residents. Along with the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock, Stephen Metcalfe and myself, the Councillor for Vange. We were shown how having the housing office for Circle Anglia and the police based in the same building has lead to better communication, and allowed problems to be sorted faster and more effectively, one example being the use of arbitration to sort out disputes. We were also told about operation Leopard where the police followed known trouble makers and filmed and took photos of them. This saw a 100% fall in crime that day, and a large fall in crime the week after. The funding has come from the housing association Circle Anglia, which will be enough to run the operation for a year. I welcome the hard working being done by the Police and Circle Anglia in dealing with the issues in Vange. I think this shows that it is the decisions taken nearer the ground, by the people working in the community on a regular basis that have the best impact. The government’s method of managing everything centrally and using central targets has failed, while the police using their own initiative and private money have shown success.
| CONSERVATIVES DEFEAT 'MINI PRISON' The bail hostel was defeated by the Conservatives. The combined effort of Luke Mackenzie, Councillor Tony Ball and John Baron MP. Luke Mackenzie organized residential opposition, by starting a petition, and communicating with residents. Cllr Tony Ball in his position as deputy leader of the Council, made it clear that the council objected to all the proposed properties in the district, and that planning permission would be needed, while John Baron MP held the Government to account in Parliament. Due to these combined pressures the Company who are tasked to find these properties on behalf of the Labour Government was forced to pull out.
Labour admits incompetence
Labour Minister Ivan Lewis "But we have been in government 11 years and instead of being on the side of the people, too often we simply defend the status quo, even when it is unacceptable.
"It is right we focus on the great challenges of climate change, globalisation, security and poverty at home and abroad and the nature of public service reform. "However, we are too often silent on the daily realities facing hard-working families."
Then there is our Local Labour MP, Angelia Smith. I have been handed a Labour Party Election leaflet. In which it claims the Bail hostel in Vange was stopped by Angelia Smith MP, and part of it said ‘the large amount of anxiety and worry could have been stopped sooner If I had been informed more quickly by the council’ Lets ignore the fact that most the work put into to stopping the Bail hostel was by the Conservatives, and look at this statement. Why should a well placed Labour MP be told by a Conservative council what her own Government is doing in her constituency. She is the Prime Ministers parliamentary secretary and doesn’t know what her Government is doing in her constituency. It seems to me that either the Government is incompetent and fails to communicate internally, yet alone run the country or there was something to hide, and it only became a issue because the Conservatives flagged it, and fought against it. One more thing, there would have been no anxiety and worry if her government had not been behind the proposal in first place.
| Issues | How Your Local Conservatives Voted | How Your Local Labour Party Voted | Basildon Council Motion Calling on Gordon Brown to hold the referendum on the EU reform Treaty | For a referendum | Against a referendum | | For Basildon to provide 81 new traveller pitches | Against 81 new traveller sites | For 81 new traveller sites | | Local council housing for local people, not asylum seekers | For local housing for local people | Against local housing for local people |
Some Of my Local Views - Council housing for local people, there is a shortage of housing and it makes no sence providing council housing for people outside Basildon when people in Basildon need housing.
- Regeneration, updating or replacing old housing with new modern buildings which are fit to live in while providing new facilities such as shops and restaurants and creating jobs for local residents.
- Protecting Green belt, I know there is a shortage of homes, but at the same time the Labour government is encouraging record levels of immigration. The government solution to this is to concrete over most of the Southeast. The way they go about this is undemocratic, they use an unelected organisations such as English Partnerships an the East of England Regional Assembly to force projects upon elected local authorities . Labour is forcing Basildon to build 10,700 homes, with a population of 170000, green space will soon be a thing of the past if Labour has its way
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Luke Mackenzie South Basildon & East Thurrock Conservatives
St Cleres Hall Golf Course
London Road
Stanford-Le-Hope
Essex SS17 0LX 07786813547 As the Conservative Councillor for Vange, I was elected on the following policies.
EU Action Day
On Saturday the 20th of October. I was involved in a action day in Basildon Town Centre, a group of conservative activist including our parliamentary candidate Stephen Metcalf collected over 600 signatures calling on Gordon Brown to hold a referendum on the new EU treaty.
It’s about time Angela Smith Represented the People of South Basildon and East Thurrock and called on her boss Gordon Brown to hold a referendum which her constituents want and deserve. Then again like her boss she probably thinks that voters are a inconvenience and can’t make decisions for them sleves.
Some of my National Views More powers for police to stop and search, while spending more time on the streets. Police are to tied up in paper work and red tape, cut this and let them do their Job. Put Criminals in Jail, for to long have we listened to the do gooders who think jail is not the answer, it is! If a murderer is in jail, they cannot kill you, so build more prisons.
Help the environment, there has been to much building on green belt space, build on brown field sites instead, due to the decline in industry, there is plenty of space to develop. We must not rely on imported fossil fuels, we should move to bio fuels for cars, and a mixture of Nuclear and renewable energy for our electricity needs.
The NHS has the money it needs, but it's mis-spent. Targets should be scrapped and the money saved from administration costs, should be spent on Doctors, Nurses, hygiene etc. Currently there are 2 administrators per a bed in the NHS. Spend the money on front line services and give the people of Britian the world class health service that they deserve
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