Sir Mark Hendrick MP pictured at Preston Docks Two months into his latest tenure as an MP, we sat down with Preston's now veteran member of Parliament, Sir
Opinion: Preston’s cultural challenge and the opportunity after BBC Radio 2 In The ParkIn pictures: Spot yourself at Sunday of BBC Radio 2 In The Park in the Moor Park mudTwo months into his latest tenure as an MP, we sat down with Preston’s now veteran member of Parliament, Sir Mark Hendrick.
It was a different type of festival though given it had a ticket price – Radio 1 was a ballot – and people need to remember there’s a lot goes into it in terms of security and what not, so that reflects it in the ticket price. There’s so much that goes into a festival like that coming together. But it was fantastic to see it in Preston and I think everyone did a great job – especially the crowd sticking it out on the Sunday.
In terms of Pension Credit, we need people to apply for it. I think the application process needs to be looked at, because it is long and complicated and for a lot of people that’s intimidating. It needs simplifying. There’s also an element of pride, some people don’t apply because they don’t want to accept they need some help and it’s important the government gets the message out there that this help – and other help – is available to people.
If you look at the number of working people, and put that against the numbers not working, or retired, or young and in education, then they are outnumbered. So we need to help working people – as they are the ones paying their taxes and supporting it. We know these 40 new hospitals which were promised by the Tories, well, it’s just not true is it? Not sure where the money is coming from for that.But my view is we have a good hospital in Fulwood and it is a good site for it, so there will need to be some sort of facility that keeps operating there.
If you look at Old Tram Bridge, you can see the support for that, with county chipping in and others because everyone can see the benefits of it. What we have now with all these district authorities and then the county set up, it just doesn’t work. They don’t have the clout and resources to get things done. Look at Preston, it’s a city but it’s small when it comes to being a local authority. A lot of those challenges in the city centre, they’ll never be able to solve them because they’d need to get County to support them – and they won’t because they are juggling so many different things.
It’s with Angela Rayner now to take a look at the current deal, I don’t know what will happen, but I’ll be making my feelings clear on the matter when I am asked.It’s got the RAAC in it so I don’t think it’s going to be quick. It’s something we as a city are stuck with now. Yes there’s been lots of houses built in Preston but if you look at what people need in terms of two and three-bed houses, it’s not those which are going up at the fast enough rate.
You only need to look at the bile that the likes of Farage, Musk, Trump and the like are coming out with – especially online – and I hope what we don’t see is the Tories move even further to the right as then we will have other parties then push further to the right as a response.
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