Tag: General Election

Time to decide: vote for Ellie MERTON in Walthamstow

If you are struggling to decide how to vote, then vote with your conscience and vote for someone without links to the parties you no longer trust. Vote for someone who will tackle the national issues that mean the most to you here in Walthamstow. Vote for someone who will fight your corner with you. Vote for me, your independent candidate, Ellie MERTON. Thank you! X

(Polls close at 10pm)

Hustings galore!

These are the hustings I am participating in:

Waltham Forest Trades Council & Church of England Parish of Walthamstow

Wednesday, 22 April, at 7pm

Walthamstow Girls School, Church Hill, Walthamstow, E17 9RZ

Waltham Forest Council of Mosques

Friday, 24 April, at 8.15pm (although most people say it’s 9pm)

WFIA, Ghousia Hall, 119-121 Grove Road, Walthamstow, E17 9BU

Waltham Forest Women’s Network (women-only audience)

Saturday, 25 April, at 4pm

Wood Street Library, Walthamstow, E17 4AA

38 Degrees ‘Walthamstow Question Time’

Wednesday, 29 April, at 7pm

Sir George Monoux College, 190 Chingford Road, Walthamstow, E17 5AA

Here are your eight Walthamstow candidates – the people you should expect to see at hustings. I’m number six on the ballot paper:

1 – Steven Cheung – Liberal Democrats

2 – Stella Creasy – Labour Party

3 – Michael Gold – Green Party

4 – Paul Hillman – UK Independence Party

5 – Jonty Leff – Workers Revolutionary Party

6 – Ellie Merton

7 – Molly Samuel-Leport – Conservative Party

8 – Nancy Taaffe – Trade Union and Socialist Coalition

See you there! If you cannot make any of the hustings, please do contact me and tell me your views direct, using the contact form on www.elliemerton.com or twitter or facebook!

Letter to Walthamstow from your truly independent candidate

Dear Walthamstow

How will you vote in the General Election? Are you dissatisfied with the mainstream parties? Are you thinking of a protest vote, but debating if it’s worth it?

Are you looking for an alternative to party hacks?

What I can offer

I can offer you that alternative: a genuinely independent candidate. I have never belonged to a political party – I have always been unaffiliated.

My belief in democracy, diversity and social welfare is borne out of real-world experience and freedom of thought.

Over 25 years I have successfully campaigned cross-party. My respect for others’ values has never compromised my own. My advantage in helping Walthamstow residents is a network of politicians, NGOs and mass movement activists drawn from a broad ideological spectrum to help get things done.

I learned how to bring people on board and deliver results in politics early on. I was elected to represent the welfare needs of the largest single-institution student constituency in the country at that time. It meant successfully juggling complex casework, London-wide campaigning and being held directly accountable 24/7.

That early grounding has informed my values ever since – the need for accountability, for properly funded public services, for social cohesion, for tolerance, fairness and justice for all.

More than just politics

Politics is not all I offer. My working career has been in multi-sector admin. Yet despite being at the sharp end of capitalism for the last 20 years, I have also organised large voluntary music events and run sizeable charity fundraising projects – knowledge and skills that can benefit you.

Realism

Given my diverse experience, I am realistic about the challenges any MP faces; I recognise the limits of what your local MP can achieve.

But undeterred, with my passion, determination and commitment, together we can make living and working in Walthamstow even better.

Vote

Vote for me on 07 May. Vote for a better future for Walthamstow and vote ‘Ellie Merton’.

Best wishes

Ellie