Wednesday 18 April 2012

Local elections 3rd May 2012, Wescott Wokingham Campaign Pledge


It’s voting time again.

Choosing which party to vote for should not be like supporting a football team that you stay loyal to through thick and thin. Your candidate must represent you

If like me you are of the mind that the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour are now overly tied in with the management of banking, defence and energy companies, and that the results of these industries dictating policy are poverty, war and poor consumer rights, please vote Green in the local elections on Thursday 3rd May.

Different does not mean better. All of the parties will be promising change, even the party currently holding office.

I don’t expect everyone to share my concerns about overpopulation, the effect of our resource-grabbing on the developing world and the speed of life driving communities apart.

Hopefully we do share concerns about the vast inequality in our society that those on the minimum wage barely exist, and that their direct competition with foreign labour might make them worth even less to uk employers than they must pay them. Meanwhile someone who has managed to purchase an old farm and gain a planning permission for multiple residential will have instantly made millions.

State pensions are inadequate. Our private pensions are in the control of investors who gamble with them to extract the most profit using rules their friends in politics oversee. Doomed to grow slower than inflation.

Time and time again we are shown that petitions, marches and even riots have no effect on the corporates running the major parties. It’s business as usual.

The only way to start repairing the balance is to support a party that offers new high standards of transparency and integrity – the Green Party.

You might be concerned that they could ruin the economy with over-spending through poor understanding of economics. Well I’ve been looking into it and have come to the conclusion that at the heart of their manifesto are economic policies that are actually smart, innovative, intelligent but with a mission to stimulate growth by rewarding local work and doing things of value.
Don’t take my word for it. Just google Green Party Economics.


My name is Kazek Lokuciewski. I am 36, I was born in the UK, I grew up in Ascot and I have lived and worked in Wokingham for about 11 years. I have two children aged 6 and 2, I work full time, run a free chess club at my daughter’s school and pick up litter when I jog.

I ask that you vote for me as your local councillor. I plan to take a different approach: complete transparency, and listening to residents and really representing them.

I will insist that council should halt further large scale planning until the effects of what is already happening can be experienced by the people of Wokingham. When the new properties are occupied, the local schools are unable to cope and the congestion worse. We should perhaps then make some educated desisisions

Where plans include public services or road works, these should be completed first. Where possible, road works should be carried out between rush hours..

Reinstate public toilets or introduce signage and remuneration to the businesses who agree to take up the slack.

I also give you this pledge,  otherwise I could be working for someone else. And please expect something similar of the person you would like to vote for. It may just be a silver tongue.


'I will never seek financial profit from my influence as a public representative, for myself or anyone, now or in the future, other than in the way it generally benefits the people I have been elected to represent. Nor will I vote or decide on those issues in which my personal finances will put my objectivity in question, unless to do so publicly against those interests. I will request the same of my peers. My areas of conflict will be freely given.'

Please vote Green on Thursday 3rd May.

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