User:Adrianwindisch

Rob White is currently selected as the Green Party candidate for Park Ward -- Newtown and the Wokingham Road area -- in Reading and the Reading East constituency. He lives and works in the area as a gardener and am active in the community.

He was born in 1979, and lives on Cumberland Road near Cemetery Junction. He has lived in Reading for 10 years. He leads a busy life, running his own gardening business. He is active in the Newtown GLOBE (Go Local On a Better Environment) community group, works with the community and police as vice-chair of the Newtown NAG (Neighbourhood Action Group), is a governor at the Alfred Sutton School and a volunteer as a lollipop man at the same school.

Electoral

He has stood for election in Park Ward in the local elections since 2004, increasing the number of Green votes each time. In the last locals, he finished just 20 votes away from becoming Reading's first Green councillor. He also stood in the General Election for Reading East in 2005 where the vote increased by 50%.

Political

He has been involved in many successful local campaigns: saving play equipment in Palmer Park, tackling speeding across Reading with the 20's Plenty campaign and getting the Council to produce a climate change strategy to name a few. At a national level he has campaigned against the war in Iraq, for the abolition of tuition fees and for government action on climate change.

He is out all year-round knocking on doors and talking to people about local issues. Through this work he am able to help people solve local problems. He have helped improve the local area by getting countless bins installed, pram crossings created and street lights fixed.

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