Paul Rowen's Letter from Parliament
What a ten days! Six resignations from the Cabinet, and Gordon Brown like a desperate man clutching at straws refuses to stand down or call a General Election.
11 Jun 2009
News
Lib Dems win historic Euro poll win
Earlier this week the Liberal Democrats topped the poll in South Lakeland in the European Parliamentary election for the first time in history. The votes in the election were counted and declared district by district. In South Lakeland, the Liberal Democrats won 15,447 votes, which is twice the number of votes they received at the last European elections in 2004. This was the first time that the Liberal Democrats had ever come first in a European poll in South Lakeland - in 2004 the Conservatives had topped the poll by more than 7,000 votes, but have now been pegged back to a poor second.
11 Jun 2009
Join us for the third LGBT Lib Dem Conference
DELGA and other Lib Dems interested in lesbian, gay, bi and trans issues and campaigning will be getting together on Saturday 27th June for the third Liberal Democrat LGBT Policy & Strategy Conference.
10 Jun 2009
Equalise marriage - "Number 10" website petition
DELGA welcomes a petition on the "10 Downing Street" petition website calling for Civil Partnerships and Marriage to both be made open to any consenting couple rather than limited by gender.
10 Jun 2009
Green Lib Dem Conference Programme
SATURDAY
10 Jun 2009
Mistreatment of elderly in NHS, and the whistle blowing nurse
You may have heard about Nurse Margaret Haywood, a whistle blowing nurse struck off the Nursing register for secretly filming inhuman & degrading treatment of elderly patients in a NHS hospital, for BBC Panorama. 42000 people have now signed an online petition from the Royal College of Nursing calling for her re-instalment. It has been a catalyst for an outpouring of grief and anger about poor and unequal treatment of the elderly that is all too common in the NHS.
10 Jun 2009