My name is David Sweet. Presently I’m a Beverley Town Councillor. In the elections in May I’m standing as a Labour Party candidate for the East Riding Council in the St Mary’s ward here in Beverley.
The elections will be dominated by national issues, which affect many people in the town. There are also local issues. In Beverley the main talking point for some time has been ‘development’.
The place is growing. I’ve lived here for over twenty years and in the last five there’s been probably the biggest expansion of housing and other development that the town has seen. Well, it seems like that anyway.
Beverley is changing. Undoubtedly the new Flemingate complex will alter the way the place looks and feels, and what it means.
What it means in effect is that they’re building a New Beverley. Can’t do much about that, I’m afraid, but people can have a say in whether the New Beverley is a better or worse place than the Old.
I think it can be, but it needs new politicians to work with its community to make sure that happens. Being seventy, when I say new I don’t necessarily mean young, though the young have a vital role to play in the Town’s future.
The management of the future will require imagination and positive thinking. The New Beverley can be a Better Beverley. I think voting for Labour this time will help show that Beverley has different needs and needs different people to represent it on a Council which is run almost as a one party state.
Attached is a copy of a newspaper and a transcript of an article on a court case in South Wales in the thirties. I was really proud to learn that my Uncle Jesse, and my Grandparents were so politically active, trying to stop the bailiffs from taking away the few things that a miner’s family would have owned. They were imprisoned for their pains and their courage. I hope |I’m a bit like them.
The judge, Mr Justice Branson, was Richard Branson’s grandfather. It’s good to know which side you’re on.
Dr David Sweet
Labour Party Candidate, St Mary’s, Beverley
