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Ruth Cadbury says Brentford & Isleworth has high proportion of voters with disability
She said that in areas including the constituency of Brentford and Isleworth, where she is running for election, there are more disabled people than the majority of votes at the 2010 General Election. Ruth Cadbury with Chiswick resident George who is a campaigner for disabled rights The Conservative majority at the last election in 2010 was just 1,958 while the number of disabled people is eight times that at 16,372, she said. Ruth Cadbury, said; "Throughout this campaign I have spoken to so many of the 16,000 disabled people in this constituency who have suffered under the Tory led coalition.
Other marginal seats in London where disabled persons outnumber parliamentary majority include: Croydon Central – 2,879 (parliamentary majority), 17,376 (Number of disabled people) Hendon – 106 (parliamentary majority), 17,223 (Number of disabled people) Brent Central – 1,345 (parliamentary majority), 20,014 (Number of disabled people) Enfield North – 1,692 (parliamentary majority), 15,896 (Number of disabled people)
The general election takes place on May 7th. The candidates for the Brentford & Isleworth constituency are: Joseph Bourke (Liberal Democrat), Ruth Cadbury (Labour), Daniel Goldsmith (Green Party ), Richard Hendron (UKIP), Mary Macleod (Conservative)
April 24, 2015
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