Save the Date 1 March 2010 Fundraiser

GUEST SPEAKER: Richard Barnes (AM) Deputy Mayor of London Mile End East Ward in Conjunction with POPLAR & LIMEHOUSE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION2010 ANNUAL DINNER1 March 2010 January 2010, 7.30 PM FOR 8 PMNaz Café Restaurant, 46-48 Brick Lane, London, E1 6RFTICKET INCLUDES A Three COURSE Indian BANQUET AND DRINK ON ARRIVALTICKETS : £30 PER TICKET FOR MEMBERS AND £40 PER TICKET FOR NON MEMBERSRSVP: FREEPOST RLZJ-JRKU-GHSC POPLAR & LIMEHOUSE CONSERVATIVES , 13 P LYMOUTH WHARF , L ONDON , E14 3ELANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT:Cllr Ahmed Hussain ON 07903-834-953, Caroline Kerswell on 02074270803 EMAIL MEE.Conservatives@gmail.com

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park & Ackroyd Drive Green Local Nature Reserve Annual woodland craft and funday May 2nd 2010 between 11am and 4pm

On May 2nd 2010 between 11am and 4pm Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park & Ackroyd Drive Green Local Nature Reserve will be running this very popular event for the 5th Year. The Friends pay for this event entirely from their own resources and it costs over £3000. They run the event to enage people in the Park and provide an exciting way for visitors to explore and get to know to the Park. This is not a money making venture for the Friends. Apart from small charges for things like facepainting and the bouncy castle all the activities are FREE! This year the Friends resources are more limited when compared to previous years. At this stage we're unable to be as extravagant as we have been in previous years. They are looking for the following: Musicians/band (acoustic)Craft and activity stalls - please suggest/offerFace painters + Henna tattooistsStewardsCake makersVolunteers to 'man' stalls i.e. tea and registration, etc Any offer of help would be very much appreciated, even if it's only for part of the day.

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park & Ackroyd Drive Green Local Nature Reserve
To get involved email: thcemeterypark@yahoo.co.uk
Web: www.towerhamletscemetery.org
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is truly the historic green heart of Tower Hamlets. 33 acres of Broad leaf woodland in a disused 19th century cemetery, surrounded by tower blocks and estates, where 1000s of people live. The Cemetery Park has an outstanding variety of wild plants and animals as well as plants which give clues to its history.

Invitation to Olympic Park by Hugh Robertson MP with Cllr Tim Archer

Visit to the Olympic park I went on a tour of the Olympic Park this month thanks to Hugh Robertson MP(Shadow Sports & Olympics Minister). Two things strike you as you go round; firstly how it’s really taking shape and secondly how it’s nearer (geographically) than you think to Tower Hamlets and this constituency. When you drive past the entrance on the A12 towards Walthamstow, it feels like it’s near but a few miles away. When you visit the site and leave by the exit nearest to Canary Wharf, you realise that it’s nearest point to us is just meters away from the Town Hall. So it’s all the more disappointing that just 3% of the workforce on the site is actually from Tower Hamlets.Even though we have the highest rate of unemployment of anywhere in England we are losing out to other host boroughs when it comes to local residents getting jobs there. Unemployment locally is more than just a passing thing due to the recession – it’s more structural than that. Locally, more needs to be done to give local unemployed people the skills, the attributes and the incentives to get local jobs when they become available.

Letter Published in East London Advertiser 28 January 2010

I am amazed to read that Jim Fitzpatrick MP is blasting Boris over housing. If I were a Labour MP housing would be one of the many things I would not want to talk about - giving their appalling record on it.

What Jim Fitzpatrick fails to mention is that this Labour government has built fewer social homes year after year than were ever built under the last Conservative government. Their record on housing is appalling. We have 23,000 people on the housing waiting list in Tower Hamlets, 14,000 of whom are living in over-crowded conditions thanks to Labour. Whats more the state of repair is shocking, blocks due to be demolished 3 years ago are still standing with only reinforcement pins holding on balconys and death trap corridors with wires exposed and fire escapes blocked.

Perhaps Jim should look for other issues to thrown stones about. That is after all whether or not he is still standing as the Labour candidate in Poplar. The last leaflet he was dishing out failed to mention this or Gordon Brown. Strange that isn't it?

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Building Bridges in Tower Hamlets for Women

Today I met with an organisation to pursue an opportunity for women to connect and learn about each other, the idea would be that women should learn about each others’ cultures primarily from each other. Ideas inculde finding local women who would be prepared to talk about some aspect of their lives or work – e.g. faith, history, food, fashion. Asking women involved with existing projects in Tower Hamlets to come and tell everyone else about them enabling discussions on various topics of interest in small groups. Finding women who are able to perform musically, or bring their favourite music on CD perhaps If necessary, bringing in one ‘inspirational speaker’ per event and/ musicians from outside.

These projects are just what we need in Tower Hamlets to bring forward society and help bridge the gap of poverty and culture.

In Court with Honourable Jackie Glass

Sometimes opportunities come up and you have to grab them. This inspirational experience came to me in Las Vegas, Nevada. I was invited to join Honourable Jackie Glass (Of OJ Simpson Trial fame) in Court for the morning.

With stark contrast to the UK, the action, the efficiency and the agility was pronounced. I really think I took away a lot which will help me with my Masters in International Law.

I thank the kindness which allowed me to be involved that morning.


Testing the hot seat.

Gap between the rich and poor, we need aspiration not deprivation

You have to stop and ask yourself why at the end of 13 years of Labour government is the gap between rich and poor wider than at anytime since the Second World War?

Government reports on poverty in the UK show that the children of the poor are destined to live much harder and shorter lives than those of the wealthy. The poorest parts of the country are included in Tower Hamlets, no where more so than the area I hope to represent - Mile End East.

Residents there have been abandoned by Labour and want change. I hear it on the doorstep constantly. The truth is that the Labour party has an interest in keeping people's aspiration limited, this should not be he case, if you work hard it is possible to achieve anything, coming from one of 8 children I want people to know this.

Labour cannot for any longer claim to be the party of aspiration when its failure to tackle the causes of poverty has blighted so many lives. Here in Tower Hamlets we are only too aware on this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246333/Gulf-rich-poor-grown-Labour-widest-WWII.html

Many thanks

Caroline Kerswell
Conservative Candidate for Mile End East