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
Liberal Democrat have real grounds for confidence
Public opinion may be converging around a fusion of economic competence and social justice - in Lib Dem eyes, their natural territory. The current Lib Dem positioning of themselves as more economically competent than Labour but more socially just than the Tories is classic centre-ground politics.
MK
9 Feb 2012
Icelandic update
Before the Icelandic banks collapsed Wiltshire Council 'invested' £12million at interest rates which were literally too good to be true. However thanks to the work of the Local Government Association much of the money lost by Wiltshire and other foolish councils is set to be returned. The county put £9m into Heritable Bank and £3m into Landsbanki.
TC
9 Feb 2012
Report on Belarus Forum
LIBG's joint forum on Belarus with Liberal Youth on 6 February looked at how proponents of democracy and human rights can seek to engage with Europe's last dictatorship.
MS
8 Feb 2012
Call for joined up care system
Older people are being let down by a social care system in which they are "passed like a parcel" between services, a committee of MPs has said. The Commons health select committee wants local areas in England to deliver "joined-up" care, health and housing. Funding pressures were reducing older people's quality of life, MPs added.
8 Feb 2012
Government defeat in Lords over Health and Social Care Bill
The government has lost a House of Lords vote on its controversial plans to overhaul the NHS in England. Peers backed an amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill - demanding mental health is made a higher priority - by a margin of four votes. Several other amendments will be debated on Wednesday.
8 Feb 2012
DWP admit to backlog in sickness benefit
At least 35,000 people applying for sickness benefit are waiting longer than 13 weeks, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted. DWP officials are privately blaming the backlog of employment and support allowance claims on French firm Atos, which carries out medical assessments. Atos Healthcare said it had recruited additional staff and extended opening hours in response to the situation. One member of DWP staff described the situation as "in meltdown".
8 Feb 2012
