Liberal Democrat County Councillors have voiced their strong opposition to cuts in services by the Conservative administration. The Conservative run Cabinet has this Autumn decided to terminate all Pegasus school bus services in July 2010, to reduce the ordinary public bus services and reduce the number of roads to be gritted in winter in advance of ice and snow.
For many years the Liberal Democrats have been arguing that there are better and safer modern green alternatives to mass burn incineration. The announcement by the Tories that they will abandon "energy from waste" (mass burn incineration) has finally recognised that the Lib Dem position has been correct all long. Apart from the environmental impact, mass burn incineration is known to discourage councils from recycling waste.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown and Prospective MP Terrye Teverson will be visiting Truro RBL to highlight the problems faced by serving and ex-service men and women later this week.
Commenting on today's Government figures showing the huge GCSE achievement gap between pupils from rich and poor backgrounds, David Laws said "It is shameful that the most disadvantaged children are only half as likely to get five good GCSEs than those who are better off."
The European Commission is threatening the UK government with a European court order and possible fine for breaching EU employment equality laws, by giving faith organisations wide latitude to discriminate against lesbian, gay and bisexual employees on grounds of religiously-motivated prejudice. Liberal Democrat European justice & human rights spokeswoman and London MEP Sarah Ludford said: "I have been campaigning on poor British implementation of European equality measures for a decade, ever since I became an MEP. The UK government has failed to make clear that religious freedom of thought must end at the point that it becomes unlawful discrimination against gay staff."
Liberal Democrat campaigner Simon Sansome held a public meeting in local pub 'Tom Hoskins' regarding the Maxi Waste new recycling centre on Wesley Street.