Only Greens will protect vital local services
May 2 2005
Matt Follett - Green Party candidate for Leicester South - today said that voters should vote for the party that had done most to defend local services in their communities.
Matt Follett - seen in the attached photo posting a picture of Lib Dem candidate Parmjit Gill into a letterbox - said: “ I’m doing this to remind people that the Liberal Democrats did nothing to defend post offices - like the one in Clarendon Park, which was threatened by closure. Only the Green Party stood up for local people and campaigned successfully to keep this post office open, a particularly vital service for the elderly.”
He added: “The Tories tried to jump on the bandwagon during last year's European election campaign, but ludicrously were not even aware that the closing date for returning any objections to post office closures was May 24. A photograph in the Tories' "Community News" claimed to show their candidate Chris Heaton-Harris campaigning to save the Queens Road branch. In fact, he was standing outside the West Knighton Post Office in Aberdale Road, which was about to close, and not at the Queens Road branch in Clarendon Park, which Greens were fighting to save.”
Matt continued: “Only local Greens like Bob Ball and myself are prepared to fight for the community, while councillors like Parmjit Gill stood idly by. Labour did nothing either. That would never have happened in Jim Marshall’s day, and it wouldn’t happen if I were MP.”