CLEGG: Clean Up Parliament in 100 Days by cancelling the Summer Recess
Warm words and rhetoric are easy. We must seize the mood and enact a radical programme of reform within 100 days.
30 May 2009
National News
Dundee Liberal Democrats back George Lyon and his team for Europe!
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Saturday 30th May) gave strong backing to George Lyon and his team, challenging for the Scottish Liberal Democrats at next week's European Elections.
30 May 2009
Epping Forest Lib Dems says MP should apologise and step down
Following allegations in The Daily Telegraph that Epping Forest Conservative MP Eleanor Laing has not paid £180,000 in capital gains tax after making a profit of £1 million on one of her homes, local Liberal Democrat Parliamentary campaigner Councillor Ann Haigh commented:
30 May 2009
Jonathan Webber welcomes new street name plate
Jonathan Webber, Cllr Robin Lawrence and Cllr Claire Darke have been calling all streets to have good clear name plates. The one for Sweetman Street on the corner with Clifford Street which has just said "Sweet" for a long time has at last been replaced.
30 May 2009
Chesterfield Lib Dem Manifesto Priorities set by Local Residents
After releasing their manifesto for the June 4th elections, local Liberal Democrats conducted a poll to see which of their pledges was most important to local residents. Here are the top 6.....
30 May 2009
Time to take back power
The issue of MP's expenses has highlighted the need for constitutional change, the impotency of MP's who are left to rubber stamp government legislation having been paid off by an expenses regime that positively invited them to make outlandish claims that had nothing to do with their work. At the same time the business of government is controlled from outside parliament, with the chamber itself left with only a handful of MP's in attendance, with the Prime Minister hardly ever attending except for Prime Ministers Questions, and party whips ensuring legislation is passed irrespective of its merits.
29 May 2009