Put their cases forward
On May 5 the people of Middleton will have a once in a generation opportunity to make a difference in the future of our town. The Middleton Independents Party was formed to provide a positive alternative for the people of Middleton - we felt the traditional two-party system has consistently letting our town down and this was no longer acceptable.
The group is made up of local, passionate and experienced individuals who have our town’s interests at heart. We feel Middleton is losing its history, heritage and identity while Rochdale gets the golden treatment from the Council and we believe it is time Middleton got its voice back.
By voting Middleton Independents, we and you will be sending a clear message to Rochdale that we want:
Our Greenbelt & Green Spaces preserved
Our town centre improved, cleaned and maintained
Our streets policed properly
Our pavements, roads and highways well maintained
Adequate support for local businesses and start up schemes
An Improved support and facilities for young people
A decent public transport system including Metrolink extension
The Clean Air Zone (CAZ) tax dropped
To see more of how we will address these matters and to find out who your candidates are visit our website: middletonindependents.uk
Reject the tired, old way of doing things. Vote Green for something different - your vote does count!
Rochdale Green Party wants a fairer, healthier and environmentally sustainable world. While thinking globally, we will act locally across the Borough of Rochdale (RBC), (including the formerly independent towns) to deliver on these values.
Going ‘green’ is always the easiest and cheapest choice. This includes making the tram and bus systems cheap, safe, reliable and frequent so that people can choose to reduce car use. Trams are needed too in Middleton and Heywood
Reforming energy use
Green Party candidate this time.
Elsewhere Laura Grabowska is standing for the Freedom Alliance - born of the anti-lockdown movement - in Balderstone and Kirkholt. Polling stawill end harmful fossil fuels, while conserving our natural resources.
We say no building on our valuable green belt and flood basins.
We believe wealth and incomes must be more fairly distributed: -
RBC and council contractors should pay all staff at least the Real Living Wage. We oppose Trade Union blacklists.
Good public services can lift residents out of austerity, isolation and marginalisation
People suffering inequality should be listened and responded to.
The test for policies should be whether they will benefit residents and our shared planet.
Rochdale Green Party has its own more detailed manifesto for Rochdale. For this, please apply to convenor@rochdale. greenparty.org.uk
Laura Grabowska is again standing for the Freedom Alliance in the Balderstone and Kirkholt seat.
She was born in Warsaw and came to the UK while travelling 16 years ago. She has previously said she was so impressed by the country - ‘by all its tions open on Thursday, May 5 from 7am until 10pm
The election count and declaration of results will take place on Friday, May 6
More information can be found at: http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/elections opportunities, the beauty of the countryside, and the wonderful people I met’ - that she decided to stay.
Laura said discovering the Freedom Alliance was like ‘re-encountering the sense of opportunity and freedom’ she felt when she first came to the UK.
According to its website the Freedom Alliance developed out of the protest movement in 2020. It adds: “A small group of activists recognised the need to use the political system to provide real opposition to the state’s covid narrative. We set up a registered political party and to date have stood 160 candidates for election across Britain. Initially we campaigned against “lockdowns” and the “vaccine” rollout.
“We want to see a society in which individuals, families and communities are freed from state and global corporate control. Excessive debt has been used to trap people, businesses and now nations in a system that works only for the global banks and large corporations.”
More information on this year’s Rochdale council local elections can be found here: More information can be found here: http://www.rochdale. gov.uk/elections