On Thursday 4 July, we will be electing a new Member of Parliament for Dorking & Horley. I have thought long and hard about who I will be supporting and I'm pleased to share that I will be voting for Marisa Heath in the election.
Marisa has a proven track record of delivering for residents, having served as a Councillor since 2003 at Borough and County level, including as Deputy Leader of Runnymede Borough Council and Cabinet Member for Environment at Surrey County Council. In this time, she has got funding to fix the roads in her community, delivered a town centre regeneration project and stood up to Heathrow Airport over proposed expansion. This is all experience that can help us in Horley.
Furthermore, she is taking a resident-first approach and has pledged to meet residents in every village in Dorking & Horley and act on their concerns. From a perspective of a Salfords representative, I believe this will be hugely beneficial, especially given she has already been working with myself and Salfords & Sidlow Parish Council to address surface flooding on Honeycrock Lane.
I am just as fed up as everyone else is with talentless people who have forgotten why they are in Parliament in the first place being embroiled in sleaze scandal after sleaze scandal. It has damaged trust. And that has to change and we need a new generation of representative standing up for residents in Parliament in order to rebuild trust.
Marisa is a part of that generation who can rebuild trust. She is a breath of fresh air. And my biggest reasons for supporting her are her commitment to rebuilding trust and her commitment to improve SEND provision in the East of Surrey.
I was educated in a SEND school and I had to travel across Surrey for 90 minutes each way to get the education I needed. And after Liberal Democrat-run Mole Valley District Council failed to secure a SEND school we badly need in Dorking and couldn't defend their actions at the hustings in Betchworth, my mind was made up. Marisa has a track record of standing up for SEND families like mine, and children and young people with SEND like I was. And will continue to do so in Parliament. In this situation, my view is actions speak louder than words.
I will be heading to the polling station to cast my vote for Marisa Heath on Thursday 4 July and however you vote in the election, please make sure you vote as well.
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