By Jonathan Isaby
John Bell was recently selected to stand in Alyn and Deeside at May's Welsh Assembly election.
A teacher, he has been highly active in Conservative politics in North Wales over the last few years, having contested Delyn at the 2005 general election and Clwyd South at both the 2007 Assembly election and last year's general election.
He said on his selection:
"I am absolutely proud and delighted to be given the opportunity to offer myself to the people of Alyn and Deeside as their Conservative Assembly Member. As someone who has lived in north east Wales for twenty three years and worked at both the now merged Welsh Collage of Horticulture and Deeside College while also training apprentices at Airbus Industries I obviously know the area well.
"My aim will be to represent Alyn and Deeside in a Conservative Welsh Assembly government that will bring back efficient, common-sense government to Wales and get rid of the incompetent Labour / Plaid Coalition that has taken Wales for granted for far too long. As we take the difficult decisions needed to deal with Labour’s disastrous economic legacy of a massive budget deficit and £1 Trillion debt, my priority will be the protection and expansion of the wealth-creating private sector and their jobs to rebalance the Welsh economy away from Labour’s over-reliance on public spending, borrowing, debt, bureaucracy and welfare dependency.
"As a teacher who believes education is the key to solving many of our social and economic problems, I will work to improve educational standards that lag behind the rest of the UK and, more importantly, our international competitors. Our children deserve no less. I will, of course, also be fighting against Labour’s £1 billion cuts to our health service."
