General Election 2017: Independent Fay Easton in funding appeal to stand in The Wrekin
A general election hopeful has launched a campaign to raise funds to stand as an independent candidate.
Entrepreneur Fay Easton hopes to stand as an independent candidate for The Wrekin constituency, and has started crowdfunding in a bid to get her views heard.
She said: "This Crowdfunder appeal is to help me communicate with prospective voters in The Wrekin constituency.
"I am standing as an Independent Candidate and looking to raise funds to produce information cards for delivery to every household in The Wrekin, outlining what I will do if elected.
"I am cutting my costs to the bone as I am totally independent, unsupported by any political party and need to print 45,000 information cards."
The potential MP said that she had been initially frustrated by the thought of another general election, until she considered it "the perfect time to stand up for improvements to life, businesses and homes in the area".
Ms Easton, from Wellington, said: "I am campaigning in this General Election to put economic life back into local towns. I will work to secure more local investment and jobs, create new start-ups and improve career opportunities for young people.
"I will scale up the activity I've been involved with over the past two decades to boost local entrepreneurship, retail, independent business and town centre revival.
"What can we take to Westminster? The street view and the people perspective.
"The woes of this nation will not be fixed in isolation from the UK's extraordinary hard working people.
"If elected, I'll help do all this with the power of the people alongside.
"Many local people, including me, feel disenfranchised. We feel left behind in the current political structure. Partisan politics only serves to divide us.
"If you elect me as your Independent MP I will be free of the commitments to a Political Party and therefore all my energies will be invested into working exclusively for the people of The Wrekin."
For more information or to help the crowdfunding, visit crowdfunder.co.uk/help-elect-an-independent-mp-for-the-wrekin
