Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Trowbridge housing scheme thrown out
Another large housing development on the edge of the town has been refused by WC planners. The outline application by Taylor Wimpey for land between Ashton Road and Green Lane was refused for eight reasons: it would be against planning policy; it would impact protected species; accesses onto Ashton Road were poorly designed; as a site in the countryside it would have to be car-based so was 'unsustainable'; lack of a secondary school contribution; no archaeological assessment; impact on the appearance of the rural location; inadequate provisions for infrastructure.
5 Mar 2018
Labour rule has failed Exeter
As Exeter's MP steps in (Echo 1/3/18) to explain the bus station issues, it poses fundamental questions. Where is Exeter Council Leader Pete Edwards? Why do half the voters in the city choose the Labour Party to run affairs when they are so obviously failing? If people oppose austerity, why do they vote for a Labour Party whose over-riding priority for over a decade has been to build a premium swimming pool? Is this what people in hardship are asking for? If people vote for the Labour Party's vision of new facilities, do they feel let down? Even though they have spent big on a pool that the swimming club doesn't like and a smaller bus station that bus users don't like, Labour have failed to deliver any development at all and have lost both their partners for the pool and the wider development with millions of pounds of planning investment wasted. Businesses, shoppers and workers will be deterred from the city centre by the double whammy of U-turn permission for out-of-town shopping and a 13% hike in par
4 Mar 2018
Surprise as Conservative MP for NW Norfolk signs ultra hard-line Brexiteers' letter to PM
Letter to the Editor, Lynn News, Friday 2nd March
RC
4 Mar 2018
Got any awkward questions to ask the party committees?
One of the most important aspects of our party's accountability is the ability to question its powerful people.
CL
4 Mar 2018
Birmingham Council fining Ambulances is a new low
Responding to news that the West Midlands Ambulance Service is being fined 15 times a day for using bus lanes, LibDem Health spokesperson for the West Midlands, Lee Dargue, commented:
4 Mar 2018
£40 green bin charge to continue under Tory leadership of Rugby Council
At the Full Council meeting on Tuesday 27 February 2018 to set the Budget for 2018/19 the Conservative administration who run Rugby Borough Council have again voted to charge residents £40 a year for a green bin. Rugby Liberal Democrats remain opposed to the green bin charge and continue to propose alternative solutions.
RLD
3 Mar 2018