October 9th, 2008 by jerryevans
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Labour’s decision to close many of our local Post Offices across the constituency is a huge blow to local residents. Despite the massive opposition to the closures highlighted by the collection of 1000s of petition signatures Labour have ignored people and gone ahead with the closures.
This is a massive blow to the local area and especially for those who rely upon the local Post Office for services such as the collection of their weekly pension, child allowance, collecting and sending parcels to loved ones and other state services. This means pensioners and mothers with prams and push chairs will have to struggle on long bus journeys to visit the Post Office.
The decision of the government to go ahead with these closures in the midst of huge public opposition is yet another example of how Gordon Brown and Labour are failing to listen to the concerns of ordinary people in Britain today. Firstly under the Tories and now under Labour over 5000 Post Offices across the country have been closed and there maybe more to come. Neither Labour or the Tories have any real plan to secure the future of our valuable local Post Offices.
Only the Liberal Democrats have a viable solution to ensure the future of Britain’s Post Office network by allowing them to provide more services so they can compete properly. Under Labour many services which the local Post Office has traditonally provided have been taken away making it harder for them to survive.
Liberal Democrats will continue to fight for the residents in this area and ensure that Labour is held to account over its poor decision making record. We will continue to fight any further Post Office cuts and will ensure we have viable and workable alternatives.
July 14th, 2008 by jerryevans
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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.
July 14th, 2008 by jerryevans
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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 22nd 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 17th 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.
