North Warwickshire and Bedworth Constituency

PPC - Paul Hopkins

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Website: paulhopkins.co.uk

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Biography:

My mother was a secretary and my father a joiner (carpenter), he eventually setup his own timber merchants in Birmingham (Small Heath), which is where I spent many summers and Saturdays working. Growing up working in a business is where I learnt many valuable life skills about running a business and the pitfalls when money is wasted, an empty bank account for a business means going bust (something Labour and Conservatives appear not to understand) .

I am not a career politician, when asked why I wanted to be an MP, I said ‘I don’t want to be a politician, I have no choice’. The Conservatives have destroyed this country, many things are hidden by Wokeism & the push for Diversity & Inclusion, both have pushed the pendulum as far to the left as possible, thankfully people are waking up from the fear of speaking out and are now listening to Reform UK, the only voice of reason.

I am not a ‘typical politician’ my background is in running different businesses, mobile phone, telecoms and packaging materials amongst many businesses. I have experienced the best and the worst of what can happen in business during my professional career, and have learnt how to deal with real problems where there is nobody else to fall back on, therefore I have the real world knowledge and the business experience to know what is real and fake, there is a huge amount of fakery in the media, I will cut through it, to deal with real issues, especially those relating to the North Warwickshire and Bedworth region.

My Personal History

From humble beginnings, growing up in Castle Bromwich & attending Park Hall Comprehensive until I was 12 years old, we then moved to Coleshill, North Warwickshire (1979), where I went to Coleshill Secondary school & Coleshill 6th Form, then to NWCTA (North Warwickshire College of Technology & Art) in Nuneaton, studying a two year course, BTec in Business & Finance, then eventually to Birmingham City University studying Industrial Information Technology.

Work Experience; running a mobile phone company Mobile Warehouse Ltd in Sheldon, Birmingham, employing up to 40 people as the company expanded developing into supplying mobile top-up cards and international calling cards to subpostmasters and newsagents across the UK, working closely with the Federation of subpostmasters & attending the national federation of subpostmasters conferences.

From 2005, I started Storage & Removal Boxes Ltd, trading as The Box Warehouse, the last several years trading from Coleshill, North Warwickshire.

For the past 4 years I have been developing & setting up Boxes for Soldiers, a charitable project, to help serving military personnel with receiving care packages. Totally unique, B4S lets military personnel list their needs and wants on a wishlist, then shares it with friends and supporters, when they choose an item or items to send, they are removed from the list so they only get what they need.

We hope to roll this out beyond serving military personnel to work closely with government agencies to use the same proprietary software I have had developed to help families on low income, veterans and elderly and to ultimately help the homeless. Why is the Boxes for Soldiers charity different? We take no outside funding or donations, so 100% of any money you give goes to the person, people or families you want to give it too.

When elected, I will continue to fight as hard as I can to support British Military personnel both serving and veterans wherever I can, that is my number one personal pledge to you.