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Jane Haden Standing for Teignbridge District Council in Newton Abbot Buckland and Milber Ward and for Newton Abbot Town Council #TUSC @TUSCoalition

‘Hello, I have lived the majority of my life in Newton Abbot, 30 plus years in Buckland, moving into what was then…

2/… then council housing after we were made homeless by Tory government policies in the 1980’s. We continue to live on Buckland in what is now Social Housing, due to the Bedroom Tax we had to move from our home of 25 years where we had brought up our family, moving about 3…

3/… streets away, still on Buckland.
This experience and those of people around me means that I know just how important a safe, secure home is and know how unsettling for both children and parents short term rentals can be. I want to fight for good quality Council Housing that…

4/… provides long term secure tenancies at a realistically affordable rent.
 
During the pandemic I helped run a mutual aid response group, helping with prescription collections and access to food, we are more than happy to do this it is really important that our communities get

5/ the essential items they need, however in one of the richest countries in the world no family should need to go hungry. It simply is not necessary nor is it something we should accept as just the way it is. I will fight for good secure jobs, a proper living wage that reflects

6/ the real cost of living and levels of welfare benefits that allow those unable to work to live with dignity.
 
I will fight tooth and nail against further austerity by this government, it is simply untrue that it is necessary to balance the books, it is just a political choice

7/ by an uncaring ruthless elite.
I want to give a voice those who find they have no voice, and work hard to fight for a better standard of living for us all.

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