Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
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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
Emphatic Cross-Party Vote Approves Budget Which Puts the Vulnerable First in Tough Times
The Budget proposed by Mayor Dave Hodgson and his Cabinet was passed with overwhelming cross-party support, with 39 votes for and just 1 against.
8 Feb 2017
Is Change in the eye of the beholder?
My husband and I were fortunate enough to spend last weekend in Brussels, visiting our elder daughter who is working over there. It is a journey that we have done many times…. the train down to Kings Cross, crossing the road to St Pancras, then catching the Eurostar and arriving in Brussels in time for dinner. It was an excellent journey as usual. And once we were there, we did the same sorts of things we always do… we visited an art gallery & museum, walked in the Bois de la Cambre, ate lovely food and breakfasted in street-side cafes- drinking hot chocolate & eating the kind of croissants that you really can't buy at home! This time the visit felt both familiar and poignant… just the same, and yet not quite the same at all! Did I find myself looking around us as we waited to pass through customs and wondering 'I wonder what this will be like in 2 years' time?' Did I imagine the slightly down-beat and apologetic glances of the British tourists on the train? Did I detect the slightly pitying but
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8 Feb 2017
The comparison with the 1930s should worry us all
We live in interesting times. You could go as far as say in dangerous times. Many thought that the fall of communism in the late 1980s would herald not only the 'triumph' of capitalism over socialism but also a new world order, the vindication of Bretton Woods where the eventual victors in the war against fascism sought to avoid the mistakes made after World War One. Sadly that vision of the world was already falling apart by the time the Berlin Wall came down. Thanks to right wing economists such as Milton Friedman and politicians such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan the post war consensus where governments tried to have control over the worst excesses of unbridled capitalism was morphing into the globalisation and the exploitation of low wage economies by multinational corporations and the use of tax havens which individual governments found difficult, if not virtually impossible, to counter. Indeed, by their lack of action and apparent willingness not to, in the immortal words of the Iron Lady, "
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8 Feb 2017
Herts County Council Speaks Out Against Government Cuts In Pharmacy Funding
At the Adult Care and Health Cabinet Panel on 3rd February, following debate on the Liberal Democrat Motion referred from the Council Meeting of 15th November 2016, an amended motion was agreed by the Cabinet Panel :-
8 Feb 2017
Herts County Council Speaks Out Against Government Cuts In Pharmacy Funding
At the Adult Care and Health Cabinet Panel on 3rd February, following debate on the Liberal Democrat Motion referred from the Council Meeting of 15th November 2016, an amended motion was agreed by the Cabinet Panel :-
8 Feb 2017
Leicester Liberal Democrats Facebook Page
If you are reading this article from the News Digest or have casually dropped by to the Leicester Liberal Democrats website a warm welcome from your local team.
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8 Feb 2017