He's Back Again! The Return of Ian Lewis

Over the last few weeks I've had the privilege of helping campaign for local campaigner Ian Lewis in the Leasowe and Moreton East by election. On Thursday night all the his hard work and that of the local campaign team paid of with Ian Lewis winning the election taking the seat off Labour and beating the Tranmere comedian Pauline Daniels after he had lost the seat in the local election in May 2012.

For those of you that don't know, Leasowe & Moreton East is a traditionally Labour ward in the Wallsey Constituency, which is represented by the Shadow Labour Minister Angela Eagle MP. Its often said that Local Conservatives cant win in the "urban north" well to those people I say please come to Leasowe and meet my friend Ian.

Ian has shown over recent years that local politics is about local issues. He has thrown himself into his community supporting community fundraising, allotment projects, supporting local schools and helping out 1000s of local residents with local issues across the ward. People know Cllr Lewis and they know they can rely on him to do the hard work. CCHQ should be watching closely as it this type of hard working community focused non egotistical politico we need as candidates as a party if we are going to make real progress in the North at the next General Election in 2015.

Cllr Ian Lewis and others across Wallasey have been a real inspiration to me within local politics and were one of the reasons I choose Liscard and Wallasey as a place to live, so I could get involved in supporting their hard community work and the local Conservative party in the area. I have seen what a "good" councilor looks like and how a community responds to someone willing to roll up his sleeves and help anyone with their problems no matter how big or small, I see Cllr Lewis as a role model for my self and any one interested in getting involved in local politics and I'm proud to call him a friend!

Having Cllr Ian Lewis on Wirral Council is good news for all of Wirral he will bring a local community focus to issues and will be a strong voice against council waste (such as Flashy new IPads for all Councillors on top of their expenses which he has already launched a campaign against) especially while vital community services are been cut as part of a vicious package of cuts effecting vulnerable people been implemented by the current Labour Council.