ABOUT THE CANDIDATE
Our family moved from London to Ipswich in June 1989 and I worked as a staff nurse in the Recovery Department of Ipswich Hospital until July 2009.
"Retirement" has proved extremely busy, with part-time agency nursing work, ministry duties at All Saints Kesgrave and several grandchildren now to keep in touch with.
My route into politics has been very much through a life-long love of swimming: I started campaigning for Broomhill Pool right back in 2002, never dreaming that the battle would still be going on eight years later! This will be my seventh election in total and the second General Election I have stood in.
I also research swimming pool closures and campaigns all over Britain and have frequently witnessed the fact that both central and local government are far more likely to fund "spin" rather than "swim" ie.plenty of fine words about the importance of sport and exercise, but a great reluctance to fund sports and leisure centres properly. The Government's much vaunted "Free Swimming" initiative, for example, has done absolutely nothing to slow down the rate of pool closures and cutbacks nationally.
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