This week you will select a new candidate to fight the General Election.
The timing of the Election was a surprise to us all. It made it necessary to bring forward my decision, after nearly 20 years as your MP, that it’s time to pass the baton on to someone else who can have the privilege of representing our wonderful constituency in Parliament.
I want to thank you for all of your wonderful support, encouragement, and friendship during every day of those two decades.
We have achieved by campaigning together.
I’m proud of our local achievements - like getting the A21 dualled and the Pembury Hospital built and helping thousands of individual constituents solve pressing problems.
And I’m proud of what we have done for the country - like pulling us back from the brink when Gordon Brown’s government was borrowing £1 in every £4 the Government was spending, and what we have done to get 4 million people jobs and increased the state pension by 75% including by £900 in the last year.
Now we need to make sure that Tunbridge Wells continues to be represented by a Conservative MP. Like my predecessors Sir Patrick Mayhew and Archie Norman whose effectiveness I have always tried to emulate, we need someone who has the clout to get things done nationally and locally.
You will have a choice of 3 superb, energetic and impressive candidates this week. Any one of them would do us proud and make sure Tunbridge Wells has the strongest of voices.
Whoever you choose will need your help. Our campaign is underway and I will be out shoulder-to-shoulder with our candidate. We need to produce and deliver many leaflets, letters and posters across our towns and villages over the next 5 weeks.
Your generous financial support is more important than ever.· £25 will pay for 500 letterheads
· £50 will pay for one large poster for a field or garden
· £100 will pay for 1000 window posters
· £250 will pay for "calling cards" to leave when canvassing
· £500 will pay for a leaflet for every young or first time voter
· £1000 will pay for the main election address
· £2500 will enable us to write to every postal voter
· £5000 will cover 50% of the entire campaign costs
· £10,000 will pay for the entire campaign!
If you would like to pay over £200, please contact westkentconservatives@gmail.com
Whatever you can give, I will be so grateful.
I may not be the candidate this time but I will always be dedicated to our constituency and do everything I can in our campaign for our next MP.
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