Your vote matters
With a week to go until voters in Suffolk go to the polls for local district elections, I have taken this opportunity to record a broadcast on Richard Spring MP TV to encourage everyone entitled to vote to exercise their right on 3rd May 2007.
The video is now available to view on my website: www.richardspringmp.com
As a local Member of Parliament, I spend time raising issues such as the NHS, transport and fairer funding at Westminster, in debates and in personal meetings with Ministers. However, before these local elections, I am keen to ensure that at, a local level, this democratic opportunity for people to make their voice heard is not missed.
I have often repeated that we currently have an urban-obsessed, very metropolitan Government which ruthlessly allocates money away from a rural county like Suffolk.
We are entitled to fair treatment and what is hugely important is that the interests of a rural area like Suffolk are represented by people who have the interests of that area at heart.
Therefore, I would like to encourage people in Suffolk to vote on 3rd May. Your vote is important and could be highly significant to the future governance of our county.