GREENS WIN FIRST DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL SEAT

12 November 2015

Clare Sutton (centre) celebrated her win with fellow Green Party members Anne Clements and Caz Dennett

Dorset’s first Green Party County Councillor is pledging to champion community values.

Clare Sutton last night (November 12th) won the Rodwell by-election in Weymouth, after Labour’s councillor resigned.

Clare said:
"Getting elected isn’t the end of the effort, it is the beginning. Support for the Green Party is growing all the time across south and west Dorset. This result shows that if you vote Green in Weymouth, or in Bridport, or in Dorchester, you have a really good chance of getting Green.

"What we now have to prove is that we are worth voting for. I will fight tooth and nail to represent all those people in Rodwell, and elsewhere, who feel ignored and excluded by endless cuts in local services".

One of Clare’s first priorities will be campaigning on behalf of people living along Weymouth’s most polluted street. The Green Party is staging a meeting next month to give residents, who have long complained about traffic fumes and congestion on Boot Hill, a chance to have their say directly to council officials.

"Environmental issues sit right at the top of the Green Party’s agenda. And the plight of people living on Boot Hill shows why. They have been ignored for too long. We want to work with others to try to find ways of improving their lives".

The Green Party’s other priorities locally include:

• Opposing any attempts by the Tory run County Council to fast track fracking licences in Dorset.
• Helping tackle the dire shortage of affordable homes in Dorset -- particularly for young people.
• Supporting the fight to save local services from budget cuts.

Clare said:
"People across Dorset are fed up with being constantly warned that valued local services have to go. 
"The Council’s own research shows that fewer than one person in five in Rodwell thinks they can influence decisions made by Dorset County Council. I want to change that. The Green Party wants to change that - for the common good. People don’t want to be treated as just customers. They are part of communities".

 

Green - Clare Sutton - 663 votes

Conservative - Richard Nickinson - 561 votes

Labour - Hazel Priest - 417 votes

Francis Drake - UKIP - 174 votes

Graham Winter - Lib Dems - 87 votes

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