I love Southwark. Our borough is diverse, it’s vibrant, it’s busy. It’s a bustling, amazing place.
From Peckham’s food scene to Dulwich’s parks and sports grounds, Bermondsey’s estates to Walworth’s street markets and Bankside’s heritage. Southwark has it all.
We are a green borough, with stunning parks and hundreds of thousands of trees. Our schools are some of the best in the country. Our playgrounds and sports facilities state of the art. And we have some of the best libraries and leisure centres our country has to offer. Just last week our libraries won London Library of the Year from the British Book Awards.
Alongside our communities, Labour councillors have protected and grown these brilliant parts of our borough.
But Southwark – and London as a whole – has become too expensive.
Rent rises have outstripped wages. House prices are through the roof. A more unstable world means energy is getting more and more expensive. Basic essentials are increasingly unaffordable. Families are being forced to move elsewhere.
This must change.
Southwark Labour is making it our mission to make Southwark a place everyone can succeed.
It starts with our five pledges – which we announced last month – and will be fully drawn out in our manifesto.
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Our vision is bold, it is ambitious. It means coming together with our communities to build more genuinely affordable homes; to ensure every young person can get a job, training or education when leaving school; to keep our neighbourhoods safe; to give everyone in our borough access to the fantastic culture Southwark has to offer.
All while keeping council tax low and making sure Southwark is a council you can trust.
Other political parties will talk down our borough.
They try to paint a downbeat picture of our local neighbourhoods, despite the hard work of our communities to make them the best in the country.
The picture they paint is not the reality. To let them win in May would be to risk everything we have built and we are so proud of.
Southwark Labour is bringing the positive case for our borough’s future.
A future where we end our dependence on fossil fuels, instead creating local, clean energy.
A future where every school street is safe at pick up and drop off times.
A future where our leisure centres are the best in London, our parks are teaming with life and where your local council is supporting thousands of local residents to get good, well-paid jobs.
But we know people are struggling to get by. That is why our vision puts Labour at the forefront of the fight to make our borough a place where everyone can succeed.
