A group of campaigning pensioners will be launching their efforts to win Bolton’s election candidates round to tackle “housing, climate change and inequality.” The Bolton and District Pensioners Association will be launching their manifesto from the town hall steps today. From there, they plan to contact every candidate standing across Bolton’s three constituencies in the run-up to next month’s general election in a bid to win their support for their manifesto.
Association secretary Bernie Gallagher said: “We are a non-party political, independent organisation which wants to see a fair deal for pensioners. “But our members are also parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. Association secretary Bernie Gallagher (Image: Newsquest) “It is wrong that the younger generation should be worse off than their grandparents and we want to see candidates with a commitment to ending the crisis we have with housing, climate change and wealth inequality.
” The association has become a well-known presence around the borough thanks to its string of high-profile campaigns. These include the campaign to save Haslam Park in Deane and the campaign to keep ticket offices at train stations open all over the borough. The groups have also lobbied for free public toilets at Bolton Interchange and for better access to GP surgeries.
Mrs Gallagher said: “Many of us were born before the end of rationing, the country was bankrupt after the Second World War and yet the government of .
