About Shaun Bailey
Shaun Bailey is a co-founder of My Generation, a charity set up to address the social problems that affect young people and their families, including anti-social behaviour, drug use, crime, teen pregnancy, educational underachievement and unemployment.
Shaun graduated in computer aided technology from South Bank University. Previously, he worked as a security guard at Wembley and the Trocadero to put himself through university. He grew up in the north Kensington area with his mother, brother, and granddad.
A dedicated gymnast with the Childs Hill Gymnastic Club for over twenty years, he won many competitions both nationally and internationally. He was also a member of the army cadet force for ten years, where he met one of the major influences in his life, Captain (now Colonel) Connolly—the man who always challenged him to do better and believed in him.
In 2007 he was selected to fight the new Hammersmith Parliamentary Constituency for the Conservatives. Drawn up by the independent
Boundary Commission, the new Hammersmith seat will consist of the whole borough that lies north of the Lillie Road. This will include most residents in the postal districts of W6, W12 and W14.
A strong local voice
Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush is a great place to live and work, yet we currently face some very real
threats and challenges.
The local impact of the current Labour Government has been devastating. For example they have closed 12 local Post Offices; they want to force Thames Water to destroy local green spaces for a £2.5 billion storage pipe for raw sewage that won’t solve any of our flooding problems; their licensing changes have turned our town centre areas into night time ‘no-go’ areas; their target culture is starving local hospitals of the funds they need for frontline services.
Despite often trying to deny it locally, the Labour candidate has backed all of the above.
Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush residents need their Member of Parliament to be a strong local voice, who is willing and able to put local needs ahead of party politics.
Shaun Bailey has already championed a number of local causes, big and small, standing up for local people, including:
- campaigning alongside residents to stop the closure of 7 of the borough’s Post Offices in
- March 2008, successfully stopping the Government from closing 3 of them;
- writing to thousands of residents to inform them of the threats to local green spaces from the Government’s ‘super sewer’;
- working with hundreds of Avonmore residentsto lobby against a lap dancing club opening on North End Road;
- successfully lobbied Transport for London not to put a new bus route through residential roads in the Wormholt area;
- supported local Conservative Councillors in a campaign to stop an unsuitable development being built in Tasso Road;
Shaun Bailey would be a strong local voice in the House of Commons. A Labour MP would just do more of the same. And if there is one idea that Shaun rejects, it is that things must stay the same.
Fresh thinking for Britain
As well as being a strong local campaigner, Shaun Bailey is also building a national profile - pioneering fresh thinking around issues such as tackling youth crime and breaking Britain’s dependency culture.
In his day job, Shaun is already putting his ideas into practice. As a youth worker with 20 years experience, he has helped dozens of young people in West London to turn their lives around. Youngsters who were unemployed, addicted to drugs, or living lives of crime, are now living new lives with good jobs
and real prospects.
Now, Shaun wants to bring that real life experience and the ideas that have brought results locally to the national stage. He is a respected voice among national politicians, as well as having written extensively for leading think-tanks and newspapers.
Driving Shaun’s ideas are four clear principles:
- He believes in the family.
- He believes in community.
- He believes in personal responsibility.
- He believes people should respect each other.
Put simply, Shaun Bailey is not an average politician. He is bringing fresh thinking, not only to the Conservatives, but politics as a whole.
The choice at the next general election will be simple. More of the same from Labour - or a chance for real positive change.