Your Labour Team in the Holme Valley
Bob Vant
Bob Vant is the Branch Chairman.
Bob is an ex-History teacher who took early retirement due to ill health. He is a regular writer of letters to the press, his name often appearing on the letters pages of the Holme Valley Express and Huddersfield Examiner. His pet hate is press-produced paranoia about "political correctness gone mad!!!".
Cath Ingham
Former school teacher, Cath Ingham is Branch Secretary; she has been a resident of Holmfirth for more than 25 years and is not one to sit back and wait for things to happen.
A former Parish Councillor, she has been involved in all manner of community activities and was instrumental in getting speed limits reduced and permit parking established in the town. She wants a big push on getting the area cleaned up in general, and in particular to see more dog poo bins.
Chris Chapple
Chris Chapple has lived in Holmfirth for nearly 20 years. He is married to Mary, herself a former Labour candidate. They have 4 grown up children, 8 grandchildren and several dogs.
Chris, an electrical engineer, is an active Trade Unionist. President of the Huddersfield branch of AMICUS, he is a Trades Council member and campaigns to retain and increase industrial employment in the valley.
His priority is to make sure that children and young people have plenty to do after school to keep them off the streets and out of trouble.
Kali Mountford
Kali Mountford was born in Crewe in 1954. She is married with two children and three grandchildren and lives in Slaithwaite.
A former Sheffield City Councillor, she has been the Member of Parliament for the Colne Valley since 1997.
She has been both a member of the Social Security Select Committee and of the Treasury Select Committee.
Kali moved the amendment to the Education Standards Act to abolish caning in private education and also the amendment to the Local Government Act to abolish the much maligned Section 28. She campaigned successfully to keep women's & children's health services in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and also won support for a Primary Care Trust for South Huddersfield. She is a long-time campaigner for animal welfare, and for the protection of our children from alcopops and underage drinking.
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