So I've been knocking on doors now since I was selected as a candidate but as you'd imagine since around the 1st of November
I've been knocking on doors quite
intensely
So far we've spoken to over
6000 people since the 1st of November
So we like to think we have a fairly good sense of where people are at in Ipswich on many issues
We've been all over town
I do think we're sort of a general sense of wanting to get brexit done is there I think that the vast majority of people
In Ipswich want the referendum to be respected. And of course that's not just the 58% of people in Ipswich who voted to leave
It's also a sizable number of people who voted remain who
respect a the fact a democratic process took place and it should be implemented
This election isn't just about brexit. Probably the number one local issue that's been raised of me has been concerns about
The town centre lots of elderly people
Not feeling safe going into the town centre their desire. They want something to be done about that last weekend
We obviously had be incident in Norwich Road
Which nobody should have to witness and and the fact that people live close by to where the incident took place
I can completely understand why there're concerned about that. You know, I think we need a zero-tolerance approach when it comes to these issues
But I do feel that
Ipswich deserves a Member of Parliament who will spend 2020 tackling these issues across the town
And not spending 2020 shoving remain leaflets through people's letter boxes
and that is exactly what will happen if the local Labour candidate is
re-elected and Jeremy Corbyn becomes Prime Minister, you know, we would look ahead to a year
Which should be dominated again by endless debate on brexit, a second referendum
And it would distract the focus of everybody from everything else. So I want to win
I want Boris Johnson to be elected with a majority so that I can spend 2020
Standing up for everyone in Ipswich
tackling crime and anti-social behaviour
fighting for more investment into our schools and our hospital and
turning a new chapter the country needs to come together that will only happen when the referendum result has been
respected so those are the options in front of people the Conservative Party
have a credible plan to deliver brexit the Labour Party want a second referendum
Where they want to extend and maintain freedom of movement
the Liberal democrats just want to cancel it
and the Brexit Party of course they do want to deliver brexit
But they're not able to win here. I mean out of the
6,000 people have you spoken to in the town? We've had about 30 people say they will vote for the brexit party
So I would say to everyone whether they voted to leave or remain if they want the referendum result implemented and respected
Please vote for me
I'll go to Parliament on your behalf before Christmas and we'll get that brexit deal
through Parliament and we can go into 2020 with optimism and
a clear sense that the country can move forward post brexit
