A team of volunteers joined Karen Bradley in canvassing in Leek and Biddulph on Saturday. The sun shone and the Conservative team both young and more experienced set out to deliver leaflets and drum up more support for Karen's campaign.
As the election campaign gets underway Karen Bradley points out a timely reminder of why we need change in Staffordshire Moorlands as Labour has yet again let down rural areas. Conservative Party research has shown that Labour has "fiddled" local Government funding, taking away resources from rural areas like the Moorlands and instead giving it to cities where they think they can win.
It's day three of the election campaign and Karen has been out and about in Leek meeting local businesses, canvassing and delivering leaflets with her key campaign pledges.
"Win it for Britain" was just one of the supportive comments from voters today as Karen Bradley and Conservatives in the Moorlands set out their stall for the General Election in the Market Place Leek today.
Karen appeared alongside local businessmen on the Sam Plank show on Moorlands Radio on Thursday to discuss the Budget and its effect on people in the Moorlands. During the hour long feature, the panel debated who from the Moorlands is better off from the Budget and who that many local people are worse off.
Karen has been to hundreds of local events since she was selected nearly four years ago as the Conservative candidate for Staffordshire Moorlands. Recently she's organised a series of meetings to get to know even more people in the villages across Staffordshire Moorlands. The latest "village meeting" was at the Hollybush in Brown Edge on Monday 29th March.
One of Karen's local papers has run a feature on Karen in this week's edition - find out what Your Leek Paper said after an in-depth interview with her by clicking here.
Equitable Life is the top subject in Karen's post bag. Policy holders, so badly treated by this Labour Government, have been failed again by Labour MPs who voted against a Conservative motion to deliver the remedy that the independent Ombudsman asked for 18 months ago. Despite it being eighteen months since the Ombudsman published her report on the regulation of Equitable Life, policyholders are no closer to knowing when the first payments will be made to them.
Karen Bradley accompanied local farmers and NFU reps to meet Jim Paice MP, Shadow Minister for Farming, in Parliament on Wednesday 17 March to explain their problems with bovine TB. Jim sympathised with the farmers' plight and explained the practical plans the Conservatives have to deal with the disease.
Karen Bradley and fellow Conservatives from Staffordshire Moorlands met Sir John Major at an event in Hanley recently. In an inspiring speech Sir John gave a superb analysis of the failings of the Labour government who have squandered the strong economic legacy left by the last Conservative government. His listeners left buoyed up and determined to win the next election and get Britain working again.
