In the recent Birmingham City Council elections Jerry was sucessfully relected as the Liberal Democrat Councillor for Sprinfield. In a tight race between the Lib Dems and Labour Jerry sucessfully retained the seat with a 138 majority over Labour. Despite running a busy campaign Respect failed to improve upon their previous years showing coming a poor third. Furthermore the Tories failed to make any real impact coming a very poor fourth.

“I am grateful to you, the people of Springfield for your support. I will continue to work hard for you over the next four years”, stated Jerry.  

Springfield Councillor and Hall Green Parliamentary Candidate Jerry Evans has been speaking out against Labours proposed Post Office closures in the area.

 Councillors Michael Wilkes, Paula Smith, Jackie Hawthorn and Jerry Evans met recently with the Post Office Manager at Robin Hood to discuss efforts to save this valued Post Office from closure. We are also actively involved in other meetings on the threatened post office closures.

The petition gathered at the Robin Hood Post Office is going very well with well over 1.000 signatures to date. The more signatures the better - and there’s still plenty of time to sign the petition - and to make your views known by letter. To gain its support, Michael presented the first batch of signatures to the City Council on Tuesday (the originals were returned to Robin Hood Post Office for later transmission to the closure ‘consultation team’). For some useful points to check and include in your letters see our new page on this site ’Post Office Campaign Information’.

There will be a discussion of the proposed closures as an agenda item at a meeting of Hall Green Constituency Committee (made up of the councillors from all four wards and chaired by Councillor Jerry Evans) to be held at Hall Green Library, Stratford Road (by Cambrai Drive) at 7-00 p.m. on Tuesday 22^nd July. Representatives of Post Office Ltd. and Postwatch have been invited to attend. The agenda will be available for inspection at local libraries from the 17^th of July. The full set of papers will also be viewable on the City Council’s website at www.birmingham.gov.uk under ‘City Governance’.

We hope that as many residents as possible who are opposed to the threatened closure will be able to come along to take part. In addition, the City Council has organised a scrutiny of the Post Office closures and the Evening Mail has an anti-closure campaign. Our best chance is if we all pull together - as we will try very hard to do.