The Southport Party IS and WILL REMAIN,
the ONLY party whose
PRIMARY CONCERN is Southport.

The members of The Southport Party would like to thank the many thousands of you who supported us in the 2006 local council elections by voting for our candidates. We remain as a party with no Councillors but as a huge thorn in the side of Sefton Officials and Councillors of other parties. Just as it was before 2002, there are now NO independent Councillors on Sefton Council to represent the interests of the people of Southport and make well-founded objections to their many ill-conceived schemes and policies which continue unabated. It is not difficult to find examples around Southport of their reinvigorated incompetence - Go and take a look at the disabled parking spaces on Tulketh Street and on Eastbank Street at the end of Chapel Street - Witness the expansion of their parking regime in Southport - What is happening to our Market Hall that Sefton has run into the ground?

Our resolve is, however, still strong to continue the campaign to address the many increasing concerns of the residents of Southport on the sad decline of our town. We shall do that through, for example, the local media and by making direct representations to Sefton committees, officers and elected Councillors. These include the continuation and expansion of the improvements that started in our town 5 years ago ("coincidentally" at the same time as the creation of The Southport Party) and the elimination of council waste and duplication. We do the only "benefit" to be made from the privatisation of its services will be the ability of the Council to blame somebody else when things continue to decline.

The Southport Party remains to make life difficult for those politicians and non-elected council officers who seem at best to think they are more important than they actually are and at worst even above the law. We remain dissatisfied with the way that Sefton Council investigated for the possibility of fraud at the May/June 2004 elections. We are also actively pursuing the possibility, suggested by the Boundary Commission themselves in 2004, that the boundaries within Sefton and between Sefton and its neighbours could be investigated; in other words, SOUTHPORT OUT OF SEFTON. The Government seems most reluctant to answer our legitimate questions.

We also wish to express our strong support for the work being done by the CARES hospital group towards trying to get the Children's Accident and Emergency Department returned to Southport, where it belongs. It seems, according to recent reports, that they may have succeeded for which they are to be congratulated.

Your support gave us a significant percentage of the number of votes cast in the elections 2006. We are grateful for, and appreciate every single one of those votes and hope that you will continue to support the ONLY party whose primary concern is for our town of Southport.

Any Councillors of The Southport Party will always act to the best of their abilities in the interests of this town. Councillors of other parties are always obliged to act upon the instructions of the party they represent, which is sometimes even dictated from Westminster. You therefore have the choice of voting for candidates who want the best for Southport or those who want the best for themselves and their parties. Do you want clones of those Councillors who are wrecking our town, or do you want people there who actually have a mind of their own?