Campaign for a Horizontal Pier for Redcar

The Ian Swales £50,000,000 Redcar Pier Challenge

  
    
   
 
 

Welcome To The Redcar Pier Petition

THIS IS THE £50,000,000 IAN SWALES REDCAR PIER CHALLENGE. WE ARE DEMANDING THAT HE STOPS PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES WITH OUR SEAFRONT AND BRINGS £50,000,000 TO REDCAR FOR A HORIZONTAL PIER.
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Background:

Whilst Ian Swales' Liberal Democrats claim they want Redcar to have a pier, they are unwilling to find the money to build one. The area can’t afford a pier in addition to the critical renovation and sea defence work whilst Redcar MP Ian Swales’ government slashing Redcar and Cleveland’s council budget.

Redcar and Cleveland Council faces some of the worst spending restrictions in the UK. Mr Swales and the Lib Dems selling out to the Conservatives means that the North East faces some of the country's worst cuts. “We have had £23,100,000 sliced from our budget by the Lib Dem coalition; our priority has become the survival of services” said Council Leader George Dunning.

This group has done some independent research of its own. The Lib Dems have been misleading people on the cost of a ‘traditional pier’. Cllr Chris Abbott claims a pier would only cost £3.1 million; yet, in reality, a pier with facilities comparable to those of the proposed 'Vertical Pier' would cost an amount close to £50,000,000. Weston-super-Mare's replacement pier, recently built, cost over £51,000,000. Perhaps the figure of £3.1 million cited by the Lib Dems is little more than a political ploy?

“We can’t afford a pier unless MP Swales can get £50,000,000 for Redcar from his government”, said deputy council leader Sheelagh Clarke.

Is Mr Swales using the pier as a political smokescreen to try to make the public forget the job cuts he is supporting in Redcar? His government has axed many jobs in Teesside, including nearly 197 from our NHS trusts.
Lib Dem leader Cllr Chris Abbott, who also works in Mr Swales' office, said the vertical pier was “an iconic attraction” before he decided to change his mind following his party’s Conservative sell out nationally. Perhaps he is doing this because he is concerned that he and his Lib Dem friends might lose their seats on Redcar & Cleveland Council.

The Coatham Lib Dem Cllrs, Josie Crawford and Irene Curr were both on the panel that decided to go ahead with the scheme for a vertical pier on Redcar seafront, yet neither objected whilst on this panel.
Ian Swales has never firmly backed any redevelopment plan for Redcar. His plans appear to be very different from those of the people of Redcar:

This year Ian Swales’ government have already taken £23,100,000 out of Redcar and Cleveland Council; made 197 people unemployed from the local Primary Care Trusts; stopped building schools for the future; slashed North East tourism funding; closed the North East development agency; and cut police numbers.

These are not the consistent actions of people committed to making Redcar a better place to live. 

The bankers’ incompetency and greed is not the fault of Redcar people, the banks should pay back their own deficit not you. Yet this Government seems to be on the side of bankers, not ordinary people. Will the £11bn raised from the VAT increase, which will cost you, really help fight the deficit when the Government is giving £9bn in tax cuts to banks?
In a recent free local newspaper Ian Swales called for a consultation over the vertical pier. He did not discuss the 197 NHS job losses, not about the frozen Corus funding, not about the Council's funding crisis. What are his priorities?

Is Mr Swales misleading the public by calling the Vertical Pier a 'vertical tower'? “The vertical pier will have space for dance-floors, cafés/restaurants, play areas for children and panoramic views - it is not an outdoor viewing tower. Redcar is North facing and too cold for an outdoor viewing tower, Swales is playing political games”, explained Redcar Cllr Mark Hannon.

THIS GROUP DEMANDS THAT THE POLITICAL GAMES SURROUNDING THE SEAFRONT REGENERATION PROJECT STOP - AND THAT IAN SWALES GOES DOWN TO LONDON FACES DAVID CAMERON AND RETURNS WITH £50,000,000 FOR A PIER. APPARENTLY DAVID CAMERON LOVES A GOOD PIER!
 
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