Since becoming your candidate, the 3 biggest issues that have been brought up all over the constituency are:

Education – Mostly the lack of good school places.
Housing and Regeneration – getting more people into decent homes and the fixing up/regeneration of our high streets and small businesses.
Transport – Getting better transport links for our bit of South London.

The Conservative manifesto addresses how these problems and more will be fixed. On the right hand side are links to the issues I consider most relevant to everyone in the constituency, as well as the complete Conservative Manifesto.

I am very proud to be a Conservative today. People have been so disillusioned with politics and that’s why I first got involved with the party in 2005.. I wasn’t happy with the way politicians behaved and decided to get off the fence and change things from the inside.

I have reproduced the foreword of the manifesto below, it is so inspiring. Please click on the links to the right for more details on how the manifesto will help those of us living in Dulwich, Brixton, West Norwood and Herne Hill.

Kemi Adegoke
April 13th, 2010.

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Today we are inviting the British people to come together to change their country. You will have the power to:

Be your own boss
Sack your MP
Run your own school
Own your own home
Veto council tax rise
Vote for your police
Save your local pub or post office.
Our manifesto sets out our plans to change Britain:

- Our school reform plan will raise standards and improve discipline.
- Our welfare reform plan will make sure that everyone who can work does work.
- Strong families are the bedrock of a strong society, so we are setting out plans to help make Britain the most family- friendly country in Europe.
- We will cut government waste to stop Labour’s jobs tax, which will kill the recovery.
- It reaffirms our support for the NHS.
- It includes the boldest and most ambitious set of green measures ever put before the electorate by a mainstream party.

Our manifesto brings together all the work we’ve done over the last five years as we’ve changed into a modern, progressive Conservative Party. The central idea is that we’re all in this together, that working together we can change the country for the better. We’re saying that no government on its own can solve the big problems we face – everyone’s going to have to get involved. That’s why we’ve called itInvitation to join the Government of Britain.

Some politicians say: ‘give us your vote and we will sort out all your problems’.
We say:  ‘Real change comes not from government alone.’ Real change comes when the people are inspired and mobilised, when millions of us are fired up to play a part in the nation’s future.

Yes this is ambitious. Yes it is optimistic. But in the end all the Acts of Parliament, all the new measures, all the new policy initiatives, are just politicians’ words without you and your involvement.

Each of the three programmes of reform outlined in this manifesto – our plans to build a new economic model; to build the Big Society; to build a political system where people have more power and control over their lives – is a massive undertaking in its own right. Yet we are proposing to carry out these changes all at once, because that is the only way to put Britain on the right path for a successful future.