Kaleel Khan (Independent)
I WAS born in Ashton St Peter’s Ward and have seen our town get worse.
It used to be a friendly place, where everyone knew each other and helped their neighbours – now it feels like our elected officials do not care about us.
The closure of Ashton swimming baths and the decline of our town centre, along with higher parking fees, have hurt local businesses.
We have also seen more fly tipping, rat infestations, and anti-social behaviour. The roads have potholes and cars parked on pavements make it hard for disabled people to move around.
Our young people also do not have equal sports facilities. We need a change and a new voice.
As a qualified social worker, I have spent 26 years helping local communities. My experience and skills make me a strong candidate for being a Councillor.
Please lend me your vote so we can work together to bring positive change. I am confident I can face challenges by working with you, local people, to find solutions to our issues.
David McNally (Labour)
REPRESENTING the people of St Peter’s has always been my privilege and I would be delighted to be given the opportunity to serve you again, if elected.
I know how much pride St Peter’s residents have in their area and I promise to always do my best for our community.
Times are tough for so many of us and families across St Peter’s are struggling. Food, fuel and household bills are soaring but wages and benefits are not keeping pace.
People are worse off, trapped in the cycle of insecure work and unable to plan for a better future.
The Tories have knocked the confidence of the country, drained the well of optimism, and tried to stop people believing change is possible.
I would be incredibly honoured if you would put your faith in me on Thursday, May 2 and allow me to continue the work I have been doing to make St Peter’s a better place to live.
Go on there are say I will only vote kaleel as David nowhere to be seen
Vote kaleel, he’s active and is hands on!
Dave, we don’t need your postitve change, You agreed with the council to cut funding in St Peters area. And then you have the audacity to t blame the TORIES. Time to pack your bags old man. My vote goes to independent.
David is nowhere to be seen, he has not done anything for Ashton St Peter’s, he did not stand up for the 7,000 constituents who signed a petition to keep Ashton swimming pool, he did not stand up against the closure of Royal Mail delivery office and relocated to Oldham, he did not vote against the 5% rise in council tax at the Tameside council meeting, David got rid of dustbins hence the reasons why there is so much litter in millenium green, Katherine street and dean street. David quite simply does not represent us. David did a fake litter pick next to the fire station with empty bags. David has sent out letters how he could improve the area which is an election gimmick. They blame Tory cuts but the budget is in the hands of Tameside Council who allocate funding, David was not vocal to get the budget for Ashton St Peter’s and left it to decline. The community will no longer be fooled by career politicians, he does not represent us. Vote Independent.
At least I have been seeing Kaleel helping out with the community, Dave only appears out of no where just before election time! Sick of the scam.
Vote for change, vote for Kaleel Khan! Shame on David and his team.
Dear Tameside Council,
I have been supported the Labour party blindly for over 40 years in Tameside but not anymore.
The current St Peter’s Councillors David McNally, Joyce Bowerman, and Warren Bray between them have fallen short of resident expectations in the St Peter’s area. Under their leadership St Peter’s ward is the most deprived area in Tameside and has been sliding downwards due to increased anti-social behaviour, fly tipping, missed bins collections, increased crime rates, deliberately issuing parking tickets during busiest times in the Mosque (and not providing support in additional parking facilities), no social facilities for the youth etc.
David mentions in this article: “Times are tough for so many of us and families across St Peter’s are struggling. Food, fuel and household bills are soaring, but wages and benefits are not keeping pace.” Despite, David’s caring words the three Councillors for St Peter’s ward between them were quite happy to vote for an increase in the council tax rate for residents by 4.99% impacting residents directly who are already struggling.
The Labour Council in Tameside need to re-visit allocated budgets for St Peter’s ward. They have enough funds for their new Head Quarters in Ashton (after demolishing prior Council Offices which were not that old), I have lost count of the number of times they have developed the bus station and the market area in Ashton what a waste of funds and on top of that they have increased the rent for the market stallholders to pay for their incompetency.
This comment by David is not entirely true “The Tories have knocked the confidence of the country, drained the well of optimism, and tried to stop people believing change is possible”. However, Tameside Council has been under the control of Labour for an exceptionally long time, and they cannot blame the Conservatives for their mishandling of public funds and service levels in Tameside.
TMBC Executive Team
The Office of National Statistics census for 2021 states 9.2% of Tameside residents identified themselves as “Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh”. Tameside Council has an equal opportunities policy, yet the Council Executive team does not reflect individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds and more needs to be done in this area as I believe the team should include individuals from diverse backgrounds who represent the community.
It is time for a change, and I urge residents in St Peter’s to vote for Kaleel Khan who is an independent Councillor, and he will bring positive change to St Peter’s area. He has been doing splendid work in Tameside and has been listening to resident concerns. If elected he will bring positive change and improve the lives of residents in the St Peter’s ward and will fight for an increased budget for St Peter’s ward.
I’m voting for Kaleel Khan.
Tameside is a collection of market towns; markets are what we’ve got here and not much else. Labour have managed to kill all the markets stone dead in every single town. The last so-called upgrade in Ashton gave us a third of the stalls, dodgy paving and weird, gloomy looking cabins. This hot mess took eighteen months and cost over a million pounds. I passed its ‘improvement’ every day. At one point rows and rows of diggers and machinery were lined up unused (but still being paid for) while one man worked on a cordoned off set of flags with a pickaxe. No wonder it took eighteen months. Now they’re going to be doing it again. The latest reboot is to have fixed and random stalls and to put up a canopy over everything. That’s going to be great, because it’s not as if it rains a lot here, is it? A canopy with water streaming off it; can’t wait.
They did build themselves a lovely new building to work in. It’s lovely. Go in and have a look; then visit the toilets they built in Ashton Market Hall for visitors and people who live here; grim, horrible things that look as if they’re modelled on prison toilets. No expense spared for them and a utilitarian, dirty, ugly litter-filled Ashton for the rest of us. A lovely new motorway so you can get out of Ashton faster (or bypass it altogether), pavement parking in the streets around the centre because Council Car Parks are so expensive, another new Bus Station, yet we get no more Council sponsored community events for children, young people or old people here because there’s ‘no money’. We have some of the highest paid Councillors in England; some of which have been representing us for decades with not a single positive improvement to show for it between them. As if Ashton wasn’t bad enough, don’t even start me on what they’ve done to Stalybridge (I was born there).
If Kaleel Khan gets elected it has to be better than having this badly planned, chaotic, wasteful lunacy inflicted upon us year in, year out.
Now we’re living in Market Towns without functioning markets and we have nothing else; who wanted it? Nobody but them. Who voted for it? Nobody, but they did it anyway, because they can. If it doesn’t work; redo something. It’s only a few million. Something for young people? No money. Old people? No money. Small Businesses? No money. Poor people? Go and sit in the Library with not even a coffee machine; we’ve put a Security guard in it. Enjoy.
See you under the canopy. Bring an umbrella.