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Following the resignation of the sitting Tory councillor, who represented both Woodhall Farm for the Borough and Hemel Hempstead Town in for Herts County, a by election has been called which will take place on 21st June 2012.
Hemel Labour Party are already campaigning in both wards and leafleting and canvassing has begun.
We have selected two excellent candidates who will stand up for Hemel Hempstead.
For the County elections Mike Bromberg will fight Hemel Hempstead Town and will take on the Tories on their erratic record on social services and on the failure to regenerate Hemel town centre following four failed plans in 10 years.
Former Bennetts End councillor Paul Eastwood will contest Woodhall Farm. Paul is former housing manager in Woodhall Farm and will focus on the Council's failure to deliver decent amenities.
The Tories have failed to get the basics right at a local level and now the failure of their austerity measures to grow the economy is squeezing the incomes of Hemel families.
If you live in Hemel Hempstead Town or Woodhall Farm on June 21st - it's time to have your say.
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FIGHTING FOR DECENT PENSIONS
The Coalition Government is attempting to spread untruths re this day of Action. In fact they are in a panic over all of this. Local Government and NHS and all the other Trade Union Members are up in arms about the attacks on their pension schemes. A friend of mine is now going to have to work another seven years until she is 67 before she can retire with her pension.
GOVERNMENT MYTH NO. 1. That because people are living longer they claim their pensions longer is untrue. Pension Schemes were revised to address this three years ago. Scheme benefits and costs are now 25% lower.
GOVERNMENT MYTH NO. 2. Big public sector schemes are in deficit. There is no funding gap. The public sector schemes were assessed for long term risk and adjusted according three years ago and are now very secure. They are now cash rich with income far exceeding outgoings.
GOVERNMENT MYTH NO. 3. Public services and their pensions are causing the financial crisis. The only sector that caused this crisis was the banks.
GOVERNMENT MYTH NO. 4. We are all in this together. Everyone has to make sacrifices why not public sector workers? People who work in the public services have had to suffer a wage freeze for the last three years and are facing unprecedented job cuts. Many of the people who work in the public sector have low paid and heavy work, their pensions are certainly not gold plated.
GOVERNMENT MYTH NO. 5. It’s not fair that public sector workers get good pensions when the private sector doesn’t. In recent years we have seen just how much the Chairmen and Chief Executives of FTSE companies receive for bonus payments, shares and salaries. They are certainly not feeling the pinch and are not ‘in this together’. Everyone deserves an adequate pension including workers in the private sector but then to improve pensions for workers in the private sector would reduce owners of companies and profit for shareholders.