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Voting Intentions

Mark Versallion
Parliamentary Candidate for Stretford and Urmston

"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.

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."

NEWS & CAMPAIGNS


MP's Resignation (19Jun09)
MP's Expenses (15May09)
Grown Up Debate on School (25Mar09)
Labour Still Isn't Working (19Mar09)
Repossession Advice (09Mar09)
Holocaust Memorial Day (20Jan09)
Helping Pensioners (09Jan09)
The People Vote 'No' on Congestion Charge (12Dec08)
Tax Bombshell (25Nov08)
Congestion Charge 'No' Campaign (10Nov08)
Businesses Need Real Help (24Oct08)
Labour Isn't Working (19Sep08)
Conservatives cut utility bills by up to £100 a year (01Sep08)
No School Nurse Figures (04Aug08)
MPs' Expenses Must Be Reformed (07Jul08)
No Consultation on Polyclinics (30Jun08)
Post Office Card Account (24Jun08)
Fuel Price Crisis (16Jun08)
Child and Pensioner Poverty Rises (10Jun08)
Polyclinics Threaten GP Surgeries (29May08)
Parents Flexible Working Welcomed (16May08)
10p Rate Fiasco (14May08)
Election Results (03May08)
Benefit Fraud Up (24Apr08)
Income Tax Rates Double for Lowest Paid (02Apr08)
Conservatives Support Smaller Maternity Units (17Mar08)
Bad News Budget (12Mar08)
Council Budget Delivers Growth
(25Feb08)

Ten Welfare Reforms in Two Years Demonstrate Failure
(20Feb08)

Urmston's Redevelopment
(15Feb08)

Fighting HSBC Closure
(09Feb08)

3000 Violent Criminals Released Early
(01Feb08)

How Gordon Failed to
Save for a Rainy Day

(22Jan08)

Abolish Stamp Duty for First Time Buyers
(11Jan08)

Cameron Visits Trafford General Hospital
(03Jan08)

Cancer Patient Wins Funding Battle
(19Dec07)

100,000 wait over a year for hospital treatment
(07Dec07)

Lib Dem MEP defects to Conservatives
(26Nov07)

Lost Data Risk to Children
(21Nov07)

First-time Buyers Hit by Stamp Duty
(12Nov07)

Independent Report Finds Military 'Let Down'
(05Nov07)

Congestion Charge Petition
(02Nov07)

Schools Budget Raided (25Oct07)
Taxes Reach 20-year High (20Oct07)
Pub Quiz Tax (15Oct07)
Pre-Budget Report a Con (10Oct07)
Post Office Closures (04Oct07)
House Price Tax welcomed by Lib-Labs (19Sep07)
Maternity Unit Defended (16Sep07)
Strengthen Faith Schools (11Sep07)
EU referendum promise (04Sep07)
Closure of Trafford's maternity unit (31Aug07)
Ambulance Service can't afford to replace vehicles (28Aug07)

Stretford & Urmston residents select race relations boss as MP candidate (31Jul07)

Since Mark's selection in July 2007 he has been working for local people 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 closures, campaigning for a fairer grant from this Government to Trafford Council, campaigning against over-development and central Government interference, and fighting Labour's introduction of congestion charging.

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

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

On 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 will remove the
bias in the tax system against two-parent families where only one adult works. No other European country penalises families in this way. That is why we have pledged to re-introduce a recognition of marriage into the tax system and to raise tax credits for two-parents families.

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.