Over the last few months I’ve been knocking on doors across town in support of Conservative candidates standing in the elections to Crawley Borough Council which take place on Thursday 3rd May.
With the exceptions of Gossops Green, Three Bridges and Tilgate, everyone in Crawley will have the chance to decide who represents us at the Town Hall.
If elected to administer Crawley Borough Council, local Conservatives will introduce a Better Neighbourhoods Programme to create new residential on-street parking spaces which are much-needed following four years of inaction under a Labour administration at the Town Hall.
In this time we’ve also seen a lack of urgency in terms of keeping our community tidy, and a disregard for our history with the attempted desecration of our neighbourhood principle.
Nationally, Labour’s stated plans would see debt spiral to more than 100 per cent of GDP, leaving our economy vulnerable to shocks, forcing us to waste billions more on debt interest and handing the next generation an unmanageable burden. Taxes on families and businesses would rise to their highest level in peacetime history with working families in Crawley left to pay the price.
In Parliament I continue to speak in support of investment in Britain’s future and our public services, and keeping taxes low for hard-working families and businesses.
At the beginning of April the tax-free Personal Allowance rose from £11,500 to £11,850, meaning that a typical basic rate taxpayer will pay £1,075 less in income tax in 2018-19 than in the last year under Labour.
Income tax has been cut for over 30 million people since 2010, and 4 million of the lowest paid have been taken out of paying income tax altogether.
Stamp duty has been cut for 95 per cent of first time buyers to help people realise the dream of owning their own home. Over the next five years, this tax cut will help more than a million first time buyers get onto the housing ladder. An estimated 60,000 first time buyers have already benefited.
There is much more for Crawley to achieve and this can be realised with the election of local Conservatives to the Town Hall on Thursday.
Henry Smith MP