Challenges we face

We have some real challenges in Southampton. With last week fast becoming but a happy memory, we real issues in Southampton have to be addressed. We have below average GCSE results, and many of the children leave the city to be educated. After years of failed labour ideology we must reverse this trend and make our schools beacons where children wish to learn.

We have a chronic problem with the roads and pavements in the city. With a backlog of circa £600 million we have real issues and have to look at alternative ways to the traditional methods of improvements to get them to the state that the residents of the city expect and demand.

The issue of crime is high on the list of many of the residents I spoke to and we have to challenge this, only today the local paper is running a story about how parks are unsafe. This has to stop, I am sure we will be speaking to the police and asking how we can reduce crime in the city where labour have badly let down the people.