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Building better: quality homes and services for all
It’s clear people are struggling with housing and getting access to decent public services. I hear it all the time, particularly from younger families who can’t find anywhere affordable to live in Edinburgh or elsewhere. We need to ask ours
Enough with the bureaucracy, let's get people helping out properly!
I was at the food bank last week, and there was this young woman there with her little girl. She’d only been in the country for about six months, trying to get her qualifications recognised so she could work as a nurse. She was desperate, c
Enough with the petrol cars, time for a proper cycling infrastructure boost!
We need to mandate that all new urban road construction and major refurbishments must include segregated cycle lanes. This isn't about making cycling a niche hobby; it's about making it a safe, practical choice for everyone, including my so
Defence First. Stop Funding Foreign Wars.
Heard some chatter about prioritising our own. Fair enough. But who are ‘our own’? Is it just the folks in civvy street worrying about bills, or does it include the blokes still in uniform, or those who’ve served and are now struggling? Bec
Community Policing Needs Real Investment, Not Just Talk
It’s easy to talk about bobbies on the beat, but what does that actually mean when the social care system is collapsing around them? I see it every day. Our police are stretched so thin they’re dealing with issues that social workers should
Connecting Our City: A Modern Vision for Bristol Transport
I understand the deep-seated frustration many Bristolians feel with our current public transport network. It’s a common complaint I hear on the doorstep, that getting around feels more like an obstacle course than a smooth journey. While th
Enough with the potholes! Time to invest properly in our roads, not just patch them up.
I was driving home from school last week, the same route I take every single day, and hit a pothole that was so deep it felt like I’d driven into a crater. Nearly took my wheel off. It’s not just me; parents are always complaining about the
Why are we still paying polluters to get rich off our energy bills?
How much sense does it actually make that energy companies are being handed massive subsidies while ordinary families are struggling to heat their homes? It feels like we're rewarding the very people who are making the climate crisis worse.
Price caps are a daft idea, let's focus on real solutions.
I was in the village shop the other day, picking up some essentials. The price of a loaf of bread has gone up again, it’s quite shocking. It makes you wonder how families on a tight budget are managing at all. David and I are comfortable, t
Enough is enough. Our own people come first.
I was serving a customer the other day in the shop. Nice bloke, worked all his life as a plasterer. Said he was struggling to get by, worried about his kids. Then he mentioned how many people were on the housing list in Watford. Makes you w
Let the User Pay for Their Own Justice System
The idea that legal outcomes are swayed by wealth is a fair point, but the solution proposed is just another handout. We don't need a "universal legal insurance" paid for by everyone else. My father always said, if you can't afford somethin
Bristol Needs Proper Public Transport, Not Just Fancy Promises
I get the frustration with dodgy public transport, honestly. Taking the train should be a relaxing experience, not a test of endurance. But just throwing money at new trains for ScotRail isn't the whole answer, is it? We need to be smarter
Packaging is a joke. Government needs to make supermarkets cut the plastic crap.
Just the other day, I was trying to unpack the weekly shop, and honestly, the amount of plastic was infuriating. My daughter, Lily, was trying to 'help' by sorting the recycling, and she just looked at the pile of trays and film and asked w
Why are we letting big tech own all our data? Time for us to own it and sell it ourselves.
Doesn't it strike anyone else as a bit mad that our personal data, the digital footprint of our lives, is just... owned by whatever company manages to hoover it up? We click a box, sometimes we don't even read it, and suddenly our browsing
Stop the NHS waste: Let's pay tradespeople properly for repairs, not consultants!
We need a new approach to NHS property maintenance. Instead of constantly bringing in expensive external consultants to oversee minor repairs, the NHS should directly employ a core team of skilled tradespeople – plumbers, electricians, carp
We need a serious, independent plan for defence spending, not just vague promises for the distant future.
The goverment should establish an independent Defence Funding Commission with a statutory duty to set and oversee a clear, accelerated timetable for meeting and exceeding our NATO defence spending commitments. This body would be tasked with
Why are we spending billions on weapons when our coastlines are drowning? Defence needs a rethink.
Seriously, what are we even defending if our towns are underwater and our food systems are collapsing? This whole idea of defence as just tanks and planes seems so outdated. We're facing existential threats that climate change is directly c
Our Towns First. Jobs and Homes for Everyone Who Built This Country.
It's all well and good talking about who's struggling, but let's be honest, the people who've spent their lives working and paying into the system are the ones getting a raw deal. You see it everywhere, the high street dying, factories shut
Scrap the Two-Tiered System for Prison Sentences!
It’s time we overhauled how we sentence people, especially for non-violent offenses. My proposal is to introduce a unified sentencing guideline that focuses on rehabilitation and restorative justice, rather than a punitive system that dispr
Enough with the Tree-Hugging Nonsense, Let's Actually Clean Things Up
It’s baffling how much energy goes into symbolic gestures about the environment while actual pollution continues unchecked. We’re lectured about recycling the same plastic bottle for the hundredth time when massive industrial polluters get
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