Vote Labour on Thursday 2nd May

You have 3 Ballot Papers & 3 Votes: 

London Mayor – Sadiq Khan

Croydon & Sutton Seat – Maddie Henson

London-Wide Party List – Vote Labour

The London Mayor and London elections are a straight choice between a Labour and Tories

• A choice between a Labour Mayor and a Tory challenger

• A choice between Tories and Labour as main challenger in the Croydon and Sutton London Assmbly seat. – previous result here.

• A choice between a Labour led London Assembly supporting the Labour Mayor’s budget and Tories having more control

Under Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London:

• 8,826 primary school children in Sutton are now receiving free school meals, saving families up to £1,000 for each child over two years. This adds up to 1,676,940 free school meals across the year.
• Since 2021, Sadiq has invested £616,299 in Sutton youth clubs through his New Deal for Young People, reaching 301 young people with preventative and early intervention activities, such as mentoring.
• Sadiq is tackling the housing crisis by funding 337 council house starts since 2016 and investing £19,999,000 in affordable housing since 2020 alone.

Full details of the Election is published here. 

• Mayoral candidates are here.

• London Assembly Constituency candidates are here.

• London-Wide Party List for London Assembly candidates are here. 

Ensure all you take up all your rights to vote:

• People can be registered to vote until 16 April here.

• They can obtain a postal vote until 17 April here.

• And they can apply for a Voter ID form if they do not already have one until 24 April here.

Polling Analysis shows Labour in the Lead in the Sutton and Cheam Constituency

The highly respected Electoral Calculus website which adds together all the current national opinion polls and calculates local constituency results shows Labour is in the lead in Sutton and Cheam Constituency. Electoral Calculus have accurately predicted previous General Election results.

Details of their latest analysis is shown below. People who may vote Lib Dem in local elections will want to be aware of this so they can best use their vote to defeat the Tories in the next General Election by voting Labour locally to achieve a Labour Government.

Cost of Living Crisis – Useful Advice

Local Labour members are helping out in the community as they did during Covid.  Here are some useful links:

• Government Cost of Living Links
• Cost of Living Payments
• Mayor of London Cost of Living Links
• Sutton Council Cost of Living Links
• Sutton Foodbank
• Croydon Labour MP Sarah Jones’ Cost of Living Guide

Please do pass this information to others who might find it useful.

Thank You Sutton voters!

Labour is back on Sutton Council!

Meet your new Sutton Labour Councillors

Contact Sutton Labour Councillors here:

Labour Group Leader: Councillor Sheldon Vestey

Councillor Dave Tchil

Councillor Sheila Berry served from 2022 to 2024 and has recently stood down as a Councillor.

On Thursday 5th May 2022 Labour  stood a full slate of 55 candidates across all the 20 electoral wards in the London Borough of Sutton.

Labour won 3 seats on the Council for the first time in 16 years. Our new Councillors will now stand up for those struggling with the cost of living under this Tory Government or who feel let down by the Lib Dems on Sutton Council.

The 27 Sutton and Cheam Labour candidates are listed with their biographies here.

The 28 Carshalton and Wallington Labour candidates in the other half of the borough are listed with their biographies here.

Our Key pledges for the Local Elections are below and our Manifesto and other policies are here.

Sutton Labour: On your side

Thank you for Electing Labour Councillors this time. Electing even more Labour Councillors would make a real difference to our community:

• Labour Councillors would be out and about listening to residents and working on their behalf to get their problems dealt with. If you elect us we can take action for you.

• Missed bin collections? We’ll chase Veolia about it.

• Fly tipping? We’ll report it and check that it gets cleared.

• Dangerously parked vehicles? We’ll make sure they’re dealt with

• Long waiting time for housing repairs? We’ll ask Sutton Housing Partnership or other social and private landlords why

• Parking problems? We’ll ask residents what works in their road, and listen to the answers

A General Election could be sooner than you think:

• Register to vote. You can do so online here. You just need your National Insurance Number to hand.
• Make a postal vote application. Apply to obtain a postal vote  here.
• Voter ID. You can apply for a Voter ID form if you do not already have one here.

Sutton and Cheam Labour

Welcome to Sutton and Cheam Labour Party’s website. We are an active local Party rooted in the local community:

• Labour stands for the many not the few

• Labour is active and campaigning locally

• Labour is the voice of protecting public services in Sutton: St Helier Hospital land under threat, bringing contracts in-house, building Council housing

• The Lib Dems and Tories run Sutton either through Council mismanagement or Government inaction. They are in it together: the impact of austerity from the previous Con/Lib coalition runs deep in this borough

• The Lib Dems are ruining Sutton locally: record complaints over waste collection, poor consultation over parking, the Incinerator, building on Rosehill Park

Our ongoing aim is to build stronger networks in the community to campaign for social change

Sutton and Cheam Labour

Local campaigns

St Helier Hospital acute services

We are the only major party to oppose the  decision to move vital services from St Helier Hospital to  and Epsom Hospitals to Belmont. This will mean longer travel times for people in St Helier and surrounding areas, putting patients at risk, heavier traffic in the Belmont area, and more demand on the already overstretched St Georges and Croydon Hospitals.

It’s still not clear how this plan will go ahead as the Government have slashed the budget for new hospitals, while the costs have gone up.

Sutton’s Lib Dem Council refused to ask for the plan to be reviewed, and their Scrutiny Committee Chair didn’t even allow it to be discussed!

Find out more in our Sutton Insight Healthcare section

Better services for children with special educational needs and disabilities

We know that Councils are short of money due to Government cuts, but other Local Authorities manage to provide a better service than Sutton. Following their failed Ofsted inspection in 2019, Sutton Counci-owned company Cognus have managed to get through their latest Ofsted without apparently improving services to young people and their carers – in fact the relationship between Sutton Council / Cognus and parent carers seems to have broken down.

We want to see Councillors make sure that Cognus consult with parent carers and young people to make sure that scarce resources are used in the best way possible

Proper consultation of residents about traffic schemes

The Lib Dem Council’s Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes were poorly considered and implemented. A lot of people are not happy with the way parking zones and permits have been put in. We support  the need to reduce traffic and improve air quality, but changes shouldn’t be imposed from above. We have been listening to residents about what they want and will demand further consultations from the Council. Read more

Holding our local Conservative MP to account

Our local MP Paul Scully has made some disappointing decisions in deciding whether or how to vote in Parliament. He failed to oppose fire and rehire of workers, failed to oppose cuts to holiday time school meals, voted against an amendment to protect our high food safety standards against foreign imports, voted against implementing WHO recommended air quality targets, and, most noticeably, failed to oppose the cuts to our local hospital.

Are your local Councillors doing their job?

Councillors should be monitoring Council services and making sure they are delivered properly. They should answer questions from residents, not block them. They should be open and honest about their plans for your area and not try to mislead you.

Sutton needs more Labour councillors – come and join us and help make it happen

Keep up with what is going on locally by reading local news site Sutton Insight

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