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
The end of a pernicious myth
An independent survey of social housing allocation explodes the myth that new immigrants jump the queue for social housing. The research, commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, found that less than 2 per cent of social housing tenants had arrived in the UK within the past five years, while the proportion of those born abroad living in social housing was almost identical to the proportion of social tenants born in the UK.
LA
21 Jul 2009
Support for Vestas workers
The Island Liberal Democrats join their colleagues Chris Huhne MP and Simon Hughes MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in questioning why the Government haven't been able to support Vestas blade manufacturing on the Island as they had with the Vestas wind turbine factory in Scotland.
21 Jul 2009
Lib Dems call for Action to keep our town centres alive
Liberal Democrat Councillors at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have called on the council to improve the car parking experience for visitors as part of a move to help keep the Borough's Town Centres alive through the recession.
20 Jul 2009
Liberal Democrat Councillors' bid to save firefighters
Liberal Democrat councillors are fighting plans to cut the number of firefighters at Hinckley Fire Station.
20 Jul 2009
Radical measures needed to lessen banks' threat, says Vince Cable
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman says it must be easier for large banks to fail without the state being forced to step in and save them
CW
20 Jul 2009
Welcome for government U turn on mandatory retirement age
Liz Lynne, LibDem MEP and long time campaigner against age discrimination, has welcomed reports of a Government U-turn on the mandatory retirement age. The Government has announced that a review of the practice of allowing employers to force workers over the age of 65 to retire is to be brought forward by a year. It has also been widely reported that most Ministers have already concluded that the mandatory retirement age should come to an end.
CW
20 Jul 2009
