I have lived in Worcester for three years and work locally for an engineering firm as a management accountant. I am passionate about making communities more resilient because high oil prices, the economic crisis and climate change will present Worcester with major problems in the future. I believe we need to support local businesses, local jobs and locally grown food. I believe that people should be employed on a living wage and that smaller local companies and cooperatives should be supported to create the social benefits of a thriving local jobs market. By encouraging low-carbon industries and community economies, and by making local polluters pay, a prosperous and resilient local economy can thrive; an economy that is in harmony with our environment rather than in conflict with it.

I also believe high quality universal education is essential to our future. Fuel itself is getting in shorter supply and since the huge government bail-out of the banks in 2008, so is the money to buy it. This money should be used to run our hospitals, schools and public services; high-quality public services should be run for public benefit, not for private profit.

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