Eager to win your support

Leaders want votes

Thousands of people across Wishaw, Newmains, Motherwell, Shotts and Allanton will head to the polls to vote in the 2017 North Lanarkshire Council elec tions tomorrow (Thursday).

The local authority provide a wide range of vital service that affect you and your family including education, leisure, bin collections, street lighting, roads and transportation, planning, licensing, housing and of, course, the collection of council tax, rent and spending your money. Who is best placed to get your vote?

It is either the current Labour administration or the opposition SNP Group who are likely to form the new adminstration after May 4, either with an outright majority or if no-one has an overall majority, they will have to do deals with independents to form an administration.

In a local council election special, the Wishaw Press ahead of the poll asked the two party leaders, council leader Jim Logue, of Scottish Labour and SNP group leader, David Stocks, on why people should cast their vote for their party tomorrow. With elections springing up left, right and centre these days we can be forgiven for a little bit of voting fatigue setting in.

However, the local elections tomorrow on May 4 are perhaps the only elections where the decision you make will affect your life every single day.

From the roads we drive on, the schools our children attend, to the homes we live in, all are affected by the decisions your local council take on your behalf.

That is why these elections are the most important of all.

Since becoming leader of the council last year, I have undertaken the most radical changes in the history of North Lanarkshire Council.

I created a dynamic, fresh new team, that has worked tirelessly over the last 13 months to deliver for all communities.

We have achieved a great many things, but I am