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Joanne4Mayor
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Aim
I want to unite our movement and build a fresh start for our city. We need unity to win in May and I need your help to make this happen.
Your money will help my campaign to secure the Labour Party nomination giving me the resource to reach out to all Liverpool Labour members. Not all of our members have access to social media or the internet and I will use the money to get my vision for the city directly to them with leaflets (via direct mail), phone calls and text messages.
I love our city and our people. We are fighters, we are driven, we are talented and unique. We are innovators and above all else, we support each other when times are hard. Liverpool has been one of the hardest hit cities in the UK as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As Mayor, I will ensure our communities recovers by building a diverse team, harnessing the talents and expertise of our Labour movement, Trade Unions, stakeholders, and residents.
As a working-class black woman and social entrepreneur, I have devoted my 30-year career to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion. I have a track record of tackling social injustice and addressing the disparities in health, education, criminal justice, housing, and employment. Besides my role as a city councillor since 2019, I am also a business consultant, providing business support and delivering training up and down the country.
I am particularly passionate about governance and accountability having spent 10 years at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) leading on community engagement policy. This meant that at a strategic level I was responsible for ensuring decision making was open to scrutiny to instill public confidence. Like everyone in our city, I am passionate about justice, and I am proud of the work I completed at the CPS, particularly with regards to victims’ services which led to greater prosecution outcomes for victims of hate crime as well as women and girls when reporting abuse and assault.
The process to select our Labour candidate for Mayor of Liverpool has not panned out the way anyone would have wanted. I want to thank Councillors Ann O'Byrne, Anna Rothery, and Wendy Simon for putting themselves forward and outlining a bold vision for our city. As 3 strong Labour women, they deserved better, and our city needs a Labour candidate for Mayor, and our city region needs greater diversity in its leadership. That is why I'm standing for selection to be Labours candidate for Mayor of Liverpool.
Transparency, Accountability and Engagement
During my time at the Crown Prosecution Service, I was responsible for ensuring accountability in its decision making by involving communities in scrutiny. Through deploying my values-based leadership approach based on honesty, integrity, trust, collaboration, innovation, diversity we will transform the culture in Liverpool City Council. When in office I will implement cross-party scrutiny that will be supplemented by an annual citizen’s audit, published so our city can be confident all the decisions we take benefit the communities of Liverpool. I will work with local councillors to organise Community Conversations in every district. These discussions will inform our priorities and policies.
Treating Housing as a Human Right
I commit to lobbying the government to back new council funding, powers, and flexibilities to build council houses again at scale. Having previously worked at Homes England, I look forward to developing a relationship with them as a key stakeholder to support our vision for council housing. I will also invest in skills development in our local construction industry to build homes that will be designed with energy efficiency. Our mission to tackle the housing crisis forms part of our commitment to carbon neutrality. We will design with a motive to increase health and well-being, protecting our local green spaces and improving our air quality across the city. I will lobby the government to increase Compulsory Order Powers for empty homes in our city which should be repurposed for the greater good. I will advocate for rent caps and controls, linked to local income and based on genuine affordability.
Repairing Our City and Social Care Sector
Our COVID-19 response will recognise Care and Collaboration are at the heart of our recovery and the foundation of our economy. We will launch a
deliverable Liverpool Future Recovery Plan that is driven by the communities of Liverpool, and celebrates our collective diversity, creativity, and hospitality. Our Recovery Plan will transform our local and wider city region economy, underpinned by equality and inclusion for all - including young people, Black and racial minorities, LGBTQ, disabled people, and women. Together we will secure our place on the international stage and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by creating a reinforced local economy, safe from Conservative cuts. We will prioritise well paid, secure employment and skills. We will have an anti-poverty agenda that backs community wealth will explore solutions to providing quality public services, that are the benefit to service users, not for the benefit of making profit for private shareholders.
Giving Our City the Final Say on the Mayoral Model
Ever since I joined the council in 2019, I have found it difficult operating under the Mayoral model of governance. When we have had this debate internally, I have consistently voted to scrap the model in favour of returning to Leader and Cabinet. The model in its current form puts far too much power into the hands of one person. Whilst I share the same surname as our incumbent Mayor, my leadership style could not be more different. That is why I support the Labour Group’s position to hold a referendum in 2023. The people of our city should have the final say on how we are governed, and I will absolutely respect and act upon the result of that referendum.
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This project successfully funded on 3rd April 2021