John Warnock has been selected by the Blackpool & Fylde Green Party, to be their prospective parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Blackpool South. He lives in Fleetwood with his wife Tracie.
John’s career began in the agricultural machinery trade, where he served a 4 year apprenticeship. His training included carpentry and welding, as well as structural steel fabrication, before moving on to landscape gardening, and sports turf care with North Bedfordshire Council. Another change in direction saw John move to the building trade and property maintenance.
As a town councillor he helped resurrect ‘Fleetwood in Bloom’ after its demise in 2003/4. He can also be found encouraging local children to tend a plot of land belonging to ‘Places for People’, where they have picked up the RHS neighbourhoods award ‘Thriving’ 2 years in a row. With any spare time, John can be found tending his allotment.
Candidate Statement
“I came to politics late, after toying briefly with it in my twenties, on reading a Referendum Party leaflet, before discarding it.” “From my experience of living through the Thatcher era, in growing from a teenager to a father, and witnessing no noticeable improvement with the advent of New Labour, my concern with politics grew.” “From there I joined the Green Party, in response to the increasing Climate Crisis.” “I am standing at this election on behalf of the ignored majority of people, suffering from the effects of the austerity programme, who share my concern for our environment, which is under attack from the vested interests of unregulated banks and big business.” “I want to see a not for profit NHS, real jobs created in the new green local economy, based on renewable energy, home insulation and support for a re-invigorated locally sustainable fishing industry.” “I believe in a fairer society, one built on co-operation rather than competition, a society for the common good.”
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