The Conservative approach includes:
- An annual limit on economic migrants - For economic migrants from outside the EU there should be an annual limit on the number admitted.
- A proper Border Police Force - A dedicated Border Police Force to ensure border security.
- Transitional controls for new EU entrants - The imposition of transitional controls for new EU entrants should be applied here as they are in other countries.
- Changes to the rules on marriages across borders - A Conservative Government will raise the minimum age for a spouse coming to Britain - and their sponsor - to 21.
- A revolution in skills training - It will be a priority to get people off benefits and into work. This will reduce the demand for migrant labour, indirectly helping to control immigration.
- Radical Welfare reform - The current benefit system actively discourages parents from living together. The Conservatives will abolish this 'couple penalty', thereby helping to tackle the social problems associated with family breakdown, including educational failure, persistent poverty, crime and substance abuse.
The Conservative approach includes:
- An annual limit on economic migrants - For economic migrants from outside the EU there should be an annual limit on the number admitted.
- A proper Border Police Force - A dedicated Border Police Force to ensure border security.
- Transitional controls for new EU entrants - The imposition of transitional controls for new EU entrants should be applied here as they are in other countries.
- Changes to the rules on marriages across borders - A Conservative Government will raise the minimum age for a spouse coming to Britain - and their sponsor - to 21.
- A revolution in skills training - It will be a priority to get people off benefits and into work. This will reduce the demand for migrant labour, indirectly helping to control immigration.
- Radical Welfare reform - The current benefit system actively discourages parents from living together. The Conservatives will abolish this 'couple penalty', thereby helping to tackle the social problems associated with family breakdown, including educational failure, persistent poverty, crime and substance abuse.
The construction will relieve Bentley Drive and take traffic away from the Parkhill residential area, thereby helping to address safety concerns on a section of the road designed to take only local traffic.
Peter Aldous comments, "It is unfortunate that this final section of the Northern Spine Road has not yet been built, but it is good news that both Councils are fully behind local residents who have campaigned long and hard for this road."
The construction will relieve Bentley Drive and take traffic away from the Parkhill residential area, thereby helping to address safety concerns on a section of the road designed to take only local traffic.
Peter Aldous comments, "It is unfortunate that this final section of the Northern Spine Road has not yet been built, but it is good news that both Councils are fully behind local residents who have campaigned long and hard for this road."
The announcement in the autumn giving the go ahead to the Cross Rail project around North London highlights the need for improvements on the East Suffolk line between Lowestoft to Ipswich with the development of the Beccles Loop.
Such a project in Suffolk would increase the reliability of the line while enabling hourly services to be introduced. The Conservatives recognise the need to increase rail capacity and efficiency so that areas like Waveney do not become gridlocked and isolated pockets of activity, but genuine enterprise hubs with strong links to the entire country.
Peter Aldous says, "The upgrading of the East Suffolk line is of vital importance to the Waveney area. It would provide a high quality rail service to London and, in due course, to Europe via Stratford International. It could also reach the rest of the world via Cross Rail which will provide better links to Heathrow and Gatwick.
However, under Labour, transport spending per head in the Eastern Counties remains the lowest in the country, at £106.80 per head compared to £198.10 in the South East.
“The Conservatives will put rail at the heart of Britain’s transport policy. There is a tremendous opportunity here and it is vital to grasp it with both hands,” Peter comments.
The announcement in the autumn giving the go ahead to the Cross Rail project around North London highlights the need for improvements on the East Suffolk line between Lowestoft to Ipswich with the development of the Beccles Loop.
Such a project in Suffolk would increase the reliability of the line while enabling hourly services to be introduced. The Conservatives recognise the need to increase rail capacity and efficiency so that areas like Waveney do not become gridlocked and isolated pockets of activity, but genuine enterprise hubs with strong links to the entire country.
Peter Aldous says, "The upgrading of the East Suffolk line is of vital importance to the Waveney area. It would provide a high quality rail service to London and, in due course, to Europe via Stratford International. It could also reach the rest of the world via Cross Rail which will provide better links to Heathrow and Gatwick.
However, under Labour, transport spending per head in the Eastern Counties remains the lowest in the country, at £106.80 per head compared to £198.10 in the South East.
“The Conservatives will put rail at the heart of Britain’s transport policy. There is a tremendous opportunity here and it is vital to grasp it with both hands,” Peter comments.
The Government's promotion of Yartoft, a new council straddling the Suffolk and Norfolk border serving both Waveney and Yarmouth, would only result in creating a huge upheaval and the weakening of centuries-old local identities. The process of reorganisation would also have a serious impact on the wider quality of life enjoyed by Waveney residents.
Such a unitary authority would require a new budget structure, the redistribution of assets and property, the relocation and redeployment of staff and the possible renegotiation of existing contracts. It is an unnecessary undertaking that will distract councils from their prime role: representing the people of Waveney.
Furthermore, recent independent research shows the bill for such a reorganisation could amount to £345 for each Council Tax paying household.
Peter Aldous says, “People are fed up with the Labour Government reviewing organisations and structures to satisfy their own particular whims and fancies without any regard for what local people want.
He continues, “Suffolk County Council and Waveney District Council should be left to get on with the job of serving the people of Waveney. Moreover, being Suffolk born and bred I do not want to see Waveney swallowed up into Norfolk”.
The Government's promotion of Yartoft, a new council straddling the Suffolk and Norfolk border serving both Waveney and Yarmouth, would only result in creating a huge upheaval and the weakening of centuries-old local identities. The process of reorganisation would also have a serious impact on the wider quality of life enjoyed by Waveney residents.
Such a unitary authority would require a new budget structure, the redistribution of assets and property, the relocation and redeployment of staff and the possible renegotiation of existing contracts. It is an unnecessary undertaking that will distract councils from their prime role: representing the people of Waveney.
Furthermore, recent independent research shows the bill for such a reorganisation could amount to £345 for each Council Tax paying household.
Peter Aldous says, “People are fed up with the Labour Government reviewing organisations and structures to satisfy their own particular whims and fancies without any regard for what local people want.
He continues, “Suffolk County Council and Waveney District Council should be left to get on with the job of serving the people of Waveney. Moreover, being Suffolk born and bred I do not want to see Waveney swallowed up into Norfolk”.
Unlike Gordon Brown who has broken Labour's manifesto pledge, the Conservatives have campaigned vigorously for a referendum as we are aware there would be enormous consequences for the future of the UK. The Conservative vision for the EU is a community of free and sovereign nations working together; not a United States of Europe. Of the main political parties only the Conservatives are committed to such a policy.
Unlike Gordon Brown who has broken Labour's manifesto pledge, the Conservatives have campaigned vigorously for a referendum as we are aware there would be enormous consequences for the future of the UK. The Conservative vision for the EU is a community of free and sovereign nations working together; not a United States of Europe. Of the main political parties only the Conservatives are committed to such a policy.