Nick Bourne AM

We launched our Manifesto yesterday; we have spent near two years consulting on this document with organisations and people from up and down Wales and it really has paid off. David Melding, in particular, has worked incredibly hard on this project., 

We have promised better hospitals and schools and more affordable homes in a manifesto which is fully costed and completely deliverable.  

I thoroughly enjoyed the day and our policies seem to have hit home with people  throughout Wales. I started at Save the Family, a charity which works with homeless people, at Northop near Mold, Flintshire & was joined by David Cameron and Cheryl Gillan. 

We moved on to Llanidloes Hospital, were we again outlined our commitment to our local hospitals across the country and ended up at the Millennium Stadium, where we were joined by Francis Maude for our final Rally in our capital city. It could not be clearer that the NHS is the party’s priority, and that professionals, not politicians, should be “in the driving seat” for patients. 

As well as this  our other commitments include: 

• a National Health Service free for all, delivering safe, effective and timely care  
  

• reform of NHS structures to improve the delivery of local healthcare  
  

• support for parents, carers and disabled people  
  

• the development of specialist and faith schools 
  

• continued opposition to university top-up fees  
  

• promoting enterprise and cutting red tape for businesses  
  

• a renewable energy target of 15% by 2015  
  

• recycling at least 40% of domestic waste by 2011  
  

• reform of the Welsh Language Act and official language status for both Welsh and English  
  

• creating an Assembly Cabinet Minister for Children  
  

• spending the same  amount as Labour overall on public services  but more on education and especially health 
  

• 1% efficiency savings across the Assembly’s £14bn budget to fund additional spending commitments  
  

• working to make devolution a success and a commitment  to devolving power to local communities  
  

• greater accountability for politicians  
  

Vote Welsh Conservative on May 3^rd for a change. 

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