The official account of Basingstoke & Deane Conservative Councillors. We work hard for all Basingstoke & Deane residents.
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Basingstoke Conservative Association are proud to announce the re-adoption of the Rt Hon Dame Maria Miller MP as the official Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate to contest the next General Election to keep Basingstoke blue.
Whoops. 😬
That’s what happens when you’re not from Basingstoke. You don’t know the names of your wards.
Sherborne St John and Rooksdown, David.
Just to the North of Basingstoke. Next time you’re through from London pay it a visit. Sherborne is in Dorset. Don’t get lost.
A beautiful sunny day in
#basingstoke
delivering leaflets and canvassing for Cllr Dan Putty in Hatch Warren and Beggarwood.
Lots of support for Dan and the Hatch Warren & Beggarwood team, thanks to all those residents who stopped to say hello!
#VoteConservative
on 4th May 🔵
Residents in
#Basingstoke
and Deane don’t only have the lowest rate of Council Tax in Hampshire, they have one of the lowest rates in England. Don’t just take our word for it, see what neighbouring authorities charge in the image below.
On the 4th May,
#VoteConservative
🗳️
Labour are plotting a ‘widow’s tax’ by scrapping single person council tax discount. In
#Basingstoke
that could mean an increase of upto £500 on your bill.
Only Conservatives will protect this discount and keep your council tax down.
#VoteConservative
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
and everyone else being treated and their loved ones. Heartfelt gratitude to everyone
@NHSUK
for their selfless service 🙏
Please
#StayHomeSaveLives
The choice is clear.
Conservatives have a record of keeping council tax low.
⬇️ £80 lower than Labour run councils
⬇️ £21 lower than Lib Dems run councils
Vote Conservative on May 4th.
Cracking day out on the doorstep today with the one, the only
@TaylorParnell15
.
You bump into some of the loveliest people in
#Basingstoke
. Our MP
@MariaMillerUK
and our previous Prime Minister
@theresa_may
came down to see the good work being done for the Cornfields.
#Basingstoke
Labour had a visit from Slough MP
@TanDhesi
today. Let’s hope they weren’t taking any tips on how to run a council.
Labour led Slough Council:
🥀Bankrupt
🥀£100m ‘black hole’ in budget
🥀9.99% increase in Council Tax
Lovely morning in
#basingstoke
delivering leaflets for Cllr Paul Miller in Chineham☀️
Thanks to all those residents who said hello!
#VoteConservative
on the 4th May 🔵
Young people aspire to own a home of their own and in Basingstoke & Deane, we’re doing what we can to give them a hand up the ladder. 🏡 We're creating a new scheme where young people can borrow £30,000 interest-free for five years to help them get a deposit
@Conservatives
Our “Three Amigos” are getting a sharp top, back and sides tomorrow. All for a great cause for
@smhbasingstoke
. Even though we think technically
@SimonBound
has had a head start on
@JayGaneshUK
and
@CllrDMcIntyre
.
Please do give generously if you can 🙏
Great to be out with activists, Councillors and
@MariaMillerUK
in
#HatchWarren
this morning. Really positive response on the doorsteps, thanks to all those who came along and to all the local residents who stopped to say hello.
Hopefully now with this positive news, the Woman’s’ Equality Party and Paul Harvey will stop casting accusations at our fantastic
@HHFTnhs
and questioning their capability.
Now is the time to stop playing silly political games. Hopefully we can all pull together to
#GetThisDone
It’s election day tomorrow. Your vote can make the difference. A difference between a
#Conservative
administration that prioritises you, ensuring
💙 Low Council Tax
💙 Quality Services
💙 Prudent financial management
We’re delighted to announce Angus Groom will be our candidate in the Bramley and Sherfield by-election on 10th October. As a local lad, Angus will work hard on the issues that matter to residents in Bramley and Sherfield.
#VoteAngus
Labour are soft on crime and soft on criminals. Total recorded crime was 34 per cent higher in Labour areas.
Where Labour Police and Crime Commissioners are in power they have lost control of crime. 🥀
Out and about this morning in Hatch Warren with
@MariaMillerUK
, local Councillors & activists.
Great response on the doorstep at news of the Council Tax freeze and the investment in the leisure park. Thanks to all those residents who stopped to say hello!
#VoteConservative
🗳️
A beautiful morning knocking doors in Kempshott with
@MariaMillerUK
, local Councillors &
@SeanDillow
.
0% increase in Council Tax, Council owned car parking charges, garden waste recycling charges & £40m commitment to build the new Aquadrome.
Your priorities are our priorities.
A good reminder that all single bus fares within
#Basingstoke
are capped at £2 under the Government’s Bus Fare Cap scheme.
Your priorities are our priorities.
Good to meet with the Managing Director of
@StagecoachSouth
to discuss bus provision in
#Basingstoke
. Remember the Government’s £2 Bus Fare Cap scheme has been extended to the end of June keeping prices down.
#Basingstoke
Conservative budget passed.
0% increase to BDBC’s share of the council tax ✅
0% increase to BDBC owned, car parking charges ✅
0% increase to garden waste collection service ✅
Investment to start developing the new Aquadrome ✅
£1m of Cost of Living funding ✅
The message we hear over and over again on the doorstep in
#Basingstoke
is positivity about
@RishiSunak
and the job he is doing. People across the UK trust him to deliver on his pledges. On the 4th May we ask you to trust your local party to deliver on ours.
#VoteConservative
🗳️
A busy day campaigning in
#basingstoke
!
A fantastic response from residents in Kempshott, supporting candidate
@SeanDillow
.
The team then shot over to Rooksdown to spend the afternoon supporting
@JayGaneshUK
.
Thanks to all those who stopped to say hello!
#VoteConservative
💙
Absolutely this. With
#Basingstoke
’s Lib Dem’s / Labour and Independents you’ll get fake platitudes when in opposition and a green light to concrete as soon as they’re in charge.
I was on
@bbcsoutheast
Politics hearing Labour’s plan to bulldoze our special countryside
Meanwhile we’re investing £37.5m to support local authorities with a new £24m Planning Skills Delivery Fund
‼️If you vote Lib Dem,you’ll get Labour & get concrete
There’s still time to register for TONIGHT’S community chat at 7pm in Carnival Hall. Come and hear about the progress being made with
#Basingstoke
’s
#NewHospital
from the Hospitals Minister and the Department of Health and Social Care.
@BasGazette
In a local election last night, a straight fight between 💙 and 🥀 resulted in a
#Conservative
gain.
Residents appreciate that
#LocalPolitics
is more than the national narrative and about who you have faith in to deliver the best for them.
Your priorities are our priorities.
St Margaret and South Marston (Swindon) council by-election result:
CON: 50.6% (+2.1)
LAB: 49.4% (-2.1)
Votes cast: 2,261
Conservative GAIN from Labour.
Inflation down ⬇️
Debt falling 📉
Growth up 📈
Todays budget helps families, businesses and communities across
#basingstoke
and boosts growth across the UK!
#conservatives
#Budget2023
@tomorrowsmps
Oh my, oh my. Are we really surprised with
@SueGrayLab
running the show? A little bit of good old fashioned nepotism hurt no-one. Right?
Online votes you say Michael? Let’s hope they learned the lessons from Croydon.
Well said
@CllrDMcIntyre
.
These proposed changes to the NPPF are the direct result of the efforts of
@MariaMillerUK
and others going back to government and saying that a top-down, developer-led process doesn’t work and rides roughshod over the wishes of local residents.
The CEO
@HHFTnhs
, Alex Whitfield talks about the public consultation that is starting now. Please do get involved and share your thoughts on
#Basingstoke
’s
#NewHospital
🏥
‘We want to make sure we do the very best we can for future generations’ Alex Whitfield, CEO of Hampshire Hospitals on why it’s important to get involved in our consultation & have your say about proposals to transform healthcare.
Visit for details.
5️⃣ 💙 We want to conclude by commending our MP,
@MariaMillerUK
and the team at the
@HHFTnhs
, whilst subjected to continual negative briefings from opposition parties, continued to work hard to get their detailed plan through the approval process and approved by the Treasury.
The Government has announced the highest school funding in history and £2.9 million extra for schools in
#Basingstoke
In total, the schools budget will be £58.8 billion in 2024/25, meaning this Government is putting more money into schools than any government in British history
A very good article from Chris Edwards.
Since 2019, Ofsted has only given five ‘outstanding’ judgements to secondary schools who have had full inspections within Hampshire. All five of those judgements were given to
#Basingstoke
schools.
#AllSchoolsGoodOrOutstanding
Absolutely disgraceful that any politician of any political party should face threats such as this.
In Johnny and Felicity’s case, this dangerous behaviour is encouraged by the disgusting personal attacks by
@CarolVorders
and the gutter journalism from the
@DailyMirror
The new administration at
@BasingstokeGov
need to listen to residents and abide by the full Council decision to reject the proposed house build number.
#SlowItDown
#Basingstoke
Read more here 👇
A Thread 🧵
1️⃣An update from
@MariaMillerUK
on government funding to enable residents to benefit from faster, more convenient care, under major new GP access recovery plan thanks to government investment of £645 million over two years to expand community pharmacy services.
👨⚕️Video Update:
#NHSAtItsBest
👩⚕️
To support our local surgeries the Government is planning to invest over £600million so that pharmacists can provide treatments for common conditions...
The
#Conservatives
are setting out the largest NHS expansion in history - doubling the number of doctors and adding 24,000 nurses a year.
By 2037 there will be at least an extra:
🩺 170k nurses
🥼 60k doctors
❤️🩹 71k healthcare professionals
Your priorities are our priorities.
Why did
@Keir_Starmer
not intervene in the Horizon scandal when he was Director of Public Prosecutions? The CPS has the power to take over or end private prosecutions for example that are vexatious or malicious. The story first broke in 2009, yet prosecutions continued until 2015
I was pleased to pay tribute to the brave sub-postmasters whose fight for justice has captured the nation. Since I was elected in 2010 I have fought their cause in Parliament because for me this is personal. Post Office and Fujitsu must be held to account.
The most fundamental change to our National Planning policies is that housing targets are now only 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆, this fallacy that the
#Basingstoke
Independent / Labour / Liberal Democrat coalition are perpetuating, that these are government imposed housing targets, is untrue
Very positive on the doorsteps this morning in the Highfields area whilst introducing myself as the new
@Conservatives
candidate for the May local elections.
#LoveKempshottBuckskin
Strong, prudent, financial management has meant that your Conservative led council is able to absorb these costs without any cuts to the services we provide to residents.
Your priorities are our priorities.
#LoveBasingstoke
Sterling work by
#Basingstoke
MP
@MariaMillerUK
. A decade long campaign now being realised and this will result in new laws that will protect victims of intimate image abuse and ensure perpetrators are punished.
NE Hampshire MP
@ranil
getting a first hand look at the designs for
#Basingstoke
’s new hospital.
Someone needs to show the Labour parliamentary candidate. He seems to be out of the loop a little bit. 🥀
#NewHospitalIsComing
4️⃣ 👩⚕️ Patients and staff will benefit from a modern hospital design making use of the latest technology, digital innovation and sustainability to improve overall patient experience and provide a better working environment for staff.
#Basingstoke
team out in Brookvale & Kings Furlong today. Great support on the doorstep at news of the freeze to BDBC’s share of the council tax, car parking charges and garden waste fees, as well as funding to start developing the new Aquadrome and
£1m of Cost of Living funds.
In black and white, what your local Labour politicians won’t tell you.
Labour will ignore
#Basingstoke
’s concerns about the rate of growth outpacing our local infrastructure. Labour will ignore you and will quite happily bulldoze over our green fields.
#VoteConservative
🗳️
🚗 Great news to see
@ConservHants
approving an additional £7.5m a year for the
@hantsconnect
road budget to tackle those potholes.
Anyone can report a pothole on the HCC website, go to to do this.
There you have it then
#Basingstoke
. Labour don’t care.
🥀 They don’t care about concreting over our Green fields.
🥀 They care nothing for our stretched water catchments.
🥀 They have no cares for outpacing
#Local
infrastructure.
And you’re a blocker if you are concerned.
Reassuring news for residents of Crown Heights.
A testament to our hardworking
#Conservative
Councillors,
@ArunNeni
and
@CllrJeans
, working alongside
@MariaMillerUK
, to ensure action is taken to carry out the work that is required.
Absolutely incredulous. Labour MPs abstained on their own opposition day debate.
Labour did NOT vote to reduce sewage
#Basingstoke
.
@MariaMillerUK
did.
Same old Labour, it’s just a game to them. 🥀
#SewageScandal
Another
#Conservative
pledge met. 50 of those new officers will be working directly within
#Basingstoke
.
There are more police officers in England and Wales than ever before.
@CllrJeans
is a diamond.
💙 Championing local housing for 180 Culver Road
💙 Driving action for cladding at Crown Heights
💙 Voting to freeze BDBC's share of Council Tax
On 4th May residents of
#Brookvale
&
#KingsFurlong
can show their support for Sam.
#VoteConservative
Great to see this additional funding secured by
@DonnaJonesPCC
, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire & Isle of Wight.
This funding will help support the police and partners to build more resilient neighbourhoods and make it harder and harder for criminals to act.
❗️Here in
#Basingstoke
&
#Deane
, at the end of the last Labour government in 2009, 8.6% of working age residents were unemployed.
🛠️ In just over a decade – through this government’s efforts, unemployment levels in Basingstoke & Deane have been cut from 8.6% to 4.3%.
Sterling efforts from
@CllrFor
and
@laura_chineham
today, litter picking in Sherfield Park with local residents and Sherfield Park Parish Council councillors. Great to see our local communities taking pride in our beautiful borough.
#LoveBasingstoke
A new £301
#CostofLiving
payment is hitting bank accounts from today, giving a boost to thousands of
#Basingstoke
households most in need.
This alongside our next phase of the Household Support Fund means we are there for all those who need extra help in these tough times.
Our water quality is improving under this
#Conservative
government. Don’t believe opposition spin.
The only reason we appreciate the scale of the problem is because this government massively improved reporting.
From 7% in 2010 to 91% of all storm overflows monitored in 2021.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is Conservative led. These proposals are the result of a well run, solid and stable financial position, prioritising our residents.
Who would have guessed, more hypocrisy from
@UKLabour
.
While Kier Starmer benefits from a bespoke public sector pension with no lifetime cap, he wants to re-introduce a cap for everyone else.
Great to see the positive message from
@Hackney_Tories
paying off on the doorstep. Congratulations Ian.
That is consistent with the conversations we’re having with
#Basingstoke
residents who can see that employment is up, inflation is down. Wages rising faster than prices. 💙