East Belfast - Ea1

“Alliance is working to build a united community in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not the ceiling of our ambition, but the foundation on which we can build a shared society. “Alliance is working for an open, free and fair society. Only Alliance rejects the notion that we must all be boxed into ‘two communities’. “Alliance is working to give everyone something better than tribal politics – a genuinely shared future.” Naomi Long

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East Belfast THURSDAY 29th MAY 2003

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Naomi Long Alliance Works

Election Communication

Strangford Constituency

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Tribal Politics doesn’t www.allianceworks.org Published by Jim Hendron on behalf of Naomi Long, both at Apartment 1, 44 Cyprus Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5NT. Printed by Alan Evans Associates, 17 Godfrey Avenue, Bangor, BT20 5LS.

Naomi Long Works • Member of Belfast City Council and Deputy Chair of Arts Sub-Committee. • Member of Belfast District Policing Partnership Board. • Has demanded that the statutory agencies work to remove sectarian and paramilitary graffiti and murals and illegal flags. • As Alliance Education Spokesperson, has called for 1 year’s free nursery education to be provided for all children. • Has developed proposals to address the shortage of ‘lollipop’ people in East Belfast and across NI. • Has successfully campaigned for better leisure facilities and ensured that East Belfast will get a new super-centre as part of the agreed city-wide strategy. • Has proposed that some of the budget be diverted from picking up litter to prosecuting litter louts.

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East Belfast Cllr Naomi Long has campaigned vigorously to retain the existing character of mature residential areas from intrusive and inappropriate development. She has also called for the introduction of the right to third party appeals. Cllr Long recently met local PSNI chiefs to discuss crime against the elderly and since then she has had leaflets containing advice on how to deal with bogus callers delivered to over 25,000 households across East Belfast.

Alliance Working ~ Making the Difference in East Belfast • Alliance MLAs saved the Assembly from collapse in November 2001. We have shown that we are prepared to take risks for peace. • Alliance proposals set out a new vision of how we can live and learn, work and play together. • Alliance is the only party to speak out against all illegal paramilitary flags and murals. • Alliance successfully proposed the appointment of a Children’s Commissioner to protect the interests of children in all aspects of government. • Alliance has persuaded the Government to introduce ‘Hate Crime’ laws, creating stiffer sentences for racial or sectarian offences. • Alliance helped to block proposals for an amnesty for paramilitaries ‘on the run’. We demand that those exiled by paramilitaries must be allowed to return home in safety. Community Relations

Law and Order

Education

Health

When elected Cllr. Naomi Long will campaign for • More police on the beat • Removal of sectarian flags and graffiti • Additional integrated school places for East Belfast • Introduction of right of third party planning appeals • Abolition of university tuition fees

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Economy/Finance

Alliance will place a Alliance will abolish the Alliance will implement Alliance will introduce Alliance will reform Alliance will work to duty on all discriminatory 50:50 a strategy to place 10% free personal care for planning laws to ensure fair taxation, Government agencies quota, to put more of our children in those living in preserve our greenbelt, with value for money, to promote police on our streets. integrated schools residential and and protect ending the abuse of community relations. by 2010. nursing homes. important buildings. the regional rate. Alliance will push for Alliance will work to tougher enforcement of Alliance will abolish Alliance will reform Alliance will increase Alliance will seek to ensure people can live the law against tuition fees for students administrative the funding given to remove unnecessary in security in mixed gangsters, rioters at Northern Ireland structures to put more public transport and regulation and housing areas. and vandals. universities. money into patient care. improve our railways. burdens on business. The full Assembly Manifesto, and detailed policy papers are available from www.allianceworks.org or by phoning 9032 4274