IT’S time for change.
That was the message from Conservative party leader David Cameron as he visited Ellesmere Port on Friday.
Mr Cameron made a special visit to fluid transport company Pirtek to speak to small businesses about what the Tories could do to help them if voted into power.
The prospective Prime Minister enjoyed a tour of the building before hosting a question and answer session with business owners where he was quizzed on immigration, home information packs (HIPS), agriculture and farming and the charity sector.
Speaking about what the Tories would do for Ellesmere Port and Neston Mr Cameron said: “We would get the economy moving.
“We’ve had the longest and deepest recession since the war.
“We’ve seen unemployment go up and national debt double and they’re planning to double it again.
“The choice is five more years of Gordon Brown, which I don’t think will get us anywhere, or change with the Conservatives who have got the energy to get things moving whether it’s on the economy or whether it’s tackling crime where we need a tougher response.
“It’s time for change.”
When questioned on Vauxhall and the future of manufacturing in the country, Mr Cameron said: “We desperately want to keep our manufacturing base going.
“Over the last decade manufacturing has declined faster than it did in the 1980s. We argued for a long time that you needed a loan guarantee scheme to actually get the loans out into the businesses that needed them and I am delighted Vauxhall is now being helped.
“But we need more than just that to get us manufacturing again.
“We need more apprentices, we need technical colleges which we’ll be building in our big cities, we need to make sure young people are studying the science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects and we need better transport infrastructure because manufacturers need to move their goods around the country.”
