"Tony Blacker is the Labour Party candidate for Stoke Park at the Borough Council election on Thursday 5th May 2022.

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Tony has spent most of his adult life in the ward, having lived on Cambridge Drive and then St Catherines Court until February 2019. He now lives on Prince of Wales Drive.

He recently lead a campaign to get the lights on the Birkfield Drive underpass fixed after they had been broken for over 8 years, and had become a crime hotspot, and has been working with residents to fix a number of local issues, from broken road signs to issues tenants face with residents associations to problems with Gateway online accounts to repairs to broken pavements. He is proud to be an active member of this community and wants to continue making a positive difference to Stoke Park.

He works full time as a programme lead in the NHS, working to make technology deliver better information to both staff and patients. He enjoys encountering different opinions to his own, and finding ways in which people of opposing outlooks can work together to a common goal.

He believes his history of having been variously self employed, a “gig economy” worker, a social housing tenant, and now a home owner working in the public sector brings with it a different perspective to the role which will allow him to not only connect with residents but also to represent them effectively."