03/06/2017
Enjoying canvassing in and meeting up with neighbours who tell me what their concerns are and asking how I can help. Its the same issues across Leicester East.
Lack of adequate social care, hardship for carers on minimum pay, lack of permanent jobs & permanent affordable housing, long wait for GP appointments, hospital cuts leading to lowered safe staffing levels in wards, pay caps & insufficient job protection for nurses & carers, cuts to local services by Labour city council, low pay including zero contract hours, fewer childcare places & cuts to benefits, street drinking, drugs & ASB, homelessness, poor parking and lack of co-ordinated bus routes.