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"Thank you for visiting my web site. I am honoured and privileged to have been selected as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for the Stretford and Urmston constituency.

As you will see my priorities are fighting crime, the congestion charge, and the closure of Trafford General's maternity and paediatric unit.

I will fight for the interests of everyone in this great constituency.
If elected as your Member of Parliament I will ensure this most fundamental of political duties is not ignored and that you have a voice in Parliament.

The current Labour MP is a Government Minister and yet remains silent on many local issues. With your support at the next election we will change that."

Since Mark's selection in July 2007 he has been working tirelessly on numerous local issues. These include leading the fight to stop the closure of Trafford General's maternity unit, lobbying Labour MPs to not vote for Post Office clousres, campaigning for a fairer grant from this Government to the local Council, campaigning against over-development and central Government interference, and fighting Labour's forced introduction of congestion charging which will run through Stretford and Urmston.

If you elect Mark as your MP he will fight for the interests of local people. Voting Conservative will also:

~ Stop hospital closures

~ Give back teachers control of their classrooms

~ See teenagers in a national citizen service

~ Increase prison places and stop Labour's early release scheme

~ Put an annual limit on immigration and improve racial integration

~ Give the British people a referendum on the EU treaty

~ Cut Inheritance Tax and cut Stamp Duty

THE DIFFERENCE

On Immigration
Britain has benefited immeasurably from immigration. But we do have to recognise the pressures that are placed on public services if immigration is unlimited. We'll bring in a proper border police force and we'll scrap ID cards.

On the NHS
We'll scrap top-down targets and trust the professionals in the NHS, replacing targets with measurable outcomes. We've got to make the NHS and doctors answerable to the patients, not the politicians.

On Family
The best welfare system of all is the family. Britain has the worst rate of family breakdown in Europe. Two million people live apart because the benefit system pays out more than if they were living together. One in four children are brought up with an absent father and children from broken homes have a 70 per cent greater chance of failure at school. We have to do something about it. We will recognise the importance of the family and marriage in the tax system and remove the benefits penalty for living together.

On the Police
We'll make police responsible to localy elected Mayors rather than the Home Office.

On Unemployment
Our policy is simple. If you are offered a job and it is a fair job that you can do and you refuse it, you shouldn't receive welfare. There are over one million young people not in work, training or education, much higher than ten years ago.

On Pensions
We'll set-up a liefboat fund to help the victims of Gordon Brown's pensions crisis. There are 125,000 people in Britain who have little or nothing from their pensions and have no income.

On Schools
- Schools should use tried and tested methods, not experimental teaching. Schools should introduce proper discipline.
- We'll give headteachers complete command of their schools. If a headteacher wants to exclude a pupil because their behaviour is wrecking the education of others, they should be able to do so. The appeals panels have got to go.
- We'll allow churches, voluntary organisations and private companies to set up state schools.

On the EU Treaty
It is one of the most blatant breaches of trust in modern politics. Labour's 2005 manifesto promised a referendum on the treaty, 95% of which still exists in the revised document.

On the Environment
Climate change is a clear and present danger to this county. How will we be able to convince China to act unless we act here at home. We are the party of sensible green leadership."

There is a clear difference between voting Labour or Conservative... and only voting Conservative will defeat Labour here.

Vote for change... vote for Mark Versallion.