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Billy McLean
17th April 2010 at 14:15
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I attended the march Defend Welfare and Public Services march on Saturday 10th April, and I just wanted to say what a great day out it was, how glad I was at the size of the march, and how good the LRC presence was and how nice everyone was to me, even though I’m relatively new to the LRC! So thank you.

I am campaigning to get my Labour MP Barbara Keeley re-elected in my constituency of Worsley and Eccles South. She was the Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, and very much New Labour on national and international issues, but she is a very good local MP on the whole in terms of standing up for the rights of carers and those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (I have Aspergers myself, so this is something very important to me personally) and in terms of fighting off Peel Holdings, who want to build 350 new homes (only a few “social housing”) on one of the few working farms left in the area, which supplies local produce, and in an area with a surplus of private sector housing, but a real shortage of decent council homes. We also have deprivation in areas like Little Hulton in our area, side by side with great wealth in areas like Worsley, and I’m trying to make sure that we make a point of campaigning on issues like promising to make sure that more investment goes into Little Hulton to help with the blights of litter, joblessness and crime. This is a key example of an constituency where campaigning on real Labour values will make such a difference, and any advice that anyone can give me to help further that aim would be much appreciated!