02 Mar Bolton West Labour Party select prospective parliamentary candidate

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Bolton West Labour Party select prospective parliamentary candidate

Labour PPC Julie Hilling (right)

BOLTON WEST have selected Julie Hilling to be Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate. The selection meeting took place at Atherton Botanical Gardens in Atherton on Saturday February 28.

Julie said: “I am honoured and privileged to have been selected by the members of Bolton West Labour Party and I look forward to campaigning with them.
“Ruth Kelly has served this area with great pride and passion for 11 years and I am determined to serve the communities of Bolton West as well as she has.
“During these tough global economic times I’m proud our Labour Government is taking bold and decisive action to win the fight for Britain’s future.

“The opposition parties don’t have anything of substance to offer the people of Heaton, Horwich, Blackrod, Smithills, Lostock, Westhoughton or Atherton.”

She added: “The Conservatives have a do nothing approach to the global economic downturn and just talk

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down. Furthermore if they get their way they would cut public sector funding - including one in five of our children’s centres.
“I’m proud we will have 19 Children’s Centres in Bolton by 2010 and will fight to make sure the Conservatives don’t put this brilliant service for young families at risk.
“I intend to keep Bolton West as a Labour seat at the next General Election and go on to serve as a MP who listens to people's concerns and fights for a fair chance for all.”

Cliff Morris, Chair of Bolton West Labour Party, said: “We are proud to have Julie Hilling as our Prospective Parliamentary Candidate.
“Now we have a candidate of such a high calibre, the whole local Labour Party is focused on making sure she wins the seat for our party at the next General Election. Only by voting Labour will people in Bolton West have an MP who fights for a fair future for all.”

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Notes to Editors:

· Julie has lived in Atherton, in Bolton West, for more than 20 years.

· She is currently the senior regional organiser for the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA), the union for people working in rail and travel.

· Previously Julie was the National President of the Community and Youth Workers Union for eight years.