'Game on' says South Thanet MP as election is called

South Thanet MP Stephen Ladyman has described the General Election as a fight for fairness and for policies that will protect South Thanet and allow its economy to grow.
Stephen Ladyman said:

"It will be a tough fight for me to hold on in South Thanet, this is a tight marginal and the Conservatives benefit from boundary changes, but it's a fight Labour has to win if local people want to see continued investment in South Thanet. Its 'game on' now and my team will be spending the next month explaining to local people exactly how Tory plans would put the recovery at risk."

"I am the first MP for South Thanet to dare to stand on my record. I will be pointing to the fast train, to the East Kent Access road works, to the new medical centres and NHS dentists and to all the schools being rebuilt across my constituency. And I'll be asking people to remember how water would come through class room ceilings when it rained before 1997 and how it would take two years to get hospital operations under the Tories and to compare their memory with what they see around them today."

"Vote Tory and Building Schools for the Future will be slashed and the rebuilding of the Ramsgate Grammar Schools, the Sandwich Technology School and Roger Manwoods will all be under threat. The Sure Start Childrens' Centres will find their budgets hived off and Labours Cancer Care Guarantee will be scrapped."

"The General Election will be a fight for fairness and for policies that will protect our community and allow our economy to grow. With Labour in power after the election there will be a National Care Service for older and disabled people but if the Tories win there will be a £200,000 inheritance tax cut for the richest 3000 estates."