Here's a copy of Kevin Dowling's manifesto pasted from the pdf version attached to his post below. Admin
Kevin Dowling: Marple Independent for Compstall, Marple, Marple Bridge, Mellor, Mill Brow, Rosehill.
Hello,
My name is Kevin Dowling
I am a published, local author (3 books) and the proprietor of the Springfield Hotel, which is situated on Station Road, Marple. The Springfield has been serving the local community since the 1960s.
For many years I have both lived and worked in Marple. It is a community I recognise, I care about and I am committed to.
In the forthcoming local elections on Thursday, 3rd May, I will be standing as an Independent Candidate for Marple North.
I am standing at this election because as a former councillor (2011-2015) I have seen how National Party Politics, stifles local government. How it devours the time and energy of our ‘locally elected representatives’ and how they become pre-occupied with issues that they were not elected to give their time and energy to. These issues distract them, even detach them completely, from local matters, matters that they were elected to give their time and energy to.
Local Councillors should be primarily concerned with, and dedicated to, local business, NOT NATIONAL Problems.
Nevertheless, because we have no choice, we as the local electorate vote these National parties in, year after year. As a consequence, our important, local Marple issues such as: vehicular traffic congestion, parking, school places, public realm, transport, housing, policing and an abundance of others, are far too often, left unprioritized at best and at worst, ignored.
This year is different, WHY? Because this year you will have the opportunity to relegate All the National parties and vote for somebody independent, somebody truly Local. Don’t waste this precious opportunity.
I will not be invading your letterbox, every few days, with leaflets, that play the same old song, the one, they keep giving us at every election. Nor do I intend to appear uninvited on your doorstep. This leaflet will be the only unsolicited communication you will receive from me during this campaign.
So, please consider this. In Marple North are we really, once again, going to elect some completely, previously unknown face, from one of the same old, self-interested, National parties? Do we have to eternally tolerate our Local community issues being overshadowed by an agenda that has been set at some National Party HQ? Surely, we are overdue in returning at least one, Local Independent Representative. A representative who is completely free of National party politics and who has a prime objective, to use all his time and energy in office, to focus upon the right kind of preservation and development for our local neighbourhood.
ARE YOU LOCAL AT LOCAL ELECTIONS ?
THEN VOTE IT
VOTE KEVIN DOWLING
kevin1dowling@gmail.com