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Shocking Rise In Foodbank Use In Newark

The Trussell Trust have emailed David Watts today to say that they have distributed 1,018 three day food parcels between April and September this year in Newark, a 21% increase on last year. This is shocking. What sort of society are we creating where people can't afford to even feed themselves. For too long we have bought the lie that people on benefits are somehow scroungers when the reality is laid very clear by these figures. Poverty in the UK is real and desperate, and it is a disgrace.

20 Nov 2019
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Lib Dems to scrap business rates to "breathe new life" into Weston's High Street

The Liberal Democrats have announced plans to scrap business rates and replace them with a landowner levy, to "breathe new life" into high streets in Weston-super-Mare. The party would replace business rates with a commercial landowner levy, based on the value of the land only. This would take the cost off businesses and help support high streets. The proposals would cut taxes for businesses by 19% in North Somerset, including Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding villages. By taxing landowners rather than businesses, half a million small businesses across the country would be spared the burden of property taxation. Liberal Democrat candidate Patrick Keating said: "Many retailers and small businesses in Weston and the surrounding area are under pressure from economic uncertainty, the rise of online retail and the burden of business rates. "Yet this Conservative government is failing to get to grips with the crisis facing our high streets. Time and again they have promised reviews of business rate

20 Nov 2019
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Henry Vann, Daniel Norton and Liberal Democrat supporters at the North Bedfordshire launch of the party's manifesto

Lib Dems Launch Ground-Breaking Manifesto

At a packed campaign launch with local party members on Tuesday evening North Bedfordshire Liberal Democrats enthusiastically endorsed their national manifesto.​ Daniel Norton and Henry Vann, Parliamentary Candidates for North East Bedfordshire and Bedford and Kempston respectively, spoke to a crowded meeting discussing plans to Stop Brexit and deliver a brighter future for Bedfordshire. ​Henry Vann, Parliamentary Candidate for Bedford and Kempston, said:​ "We will Stop Brexit, tackle climate change and invest in our local NHS with a penny on income tax. On the most important question of the day, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party don't know where they stand and the Conservatives and Brexit Party are stuck with a hard Brexit no-one voted for." ​ "That is why we are welcoming so many new members and supporters from the old Labour and Conservative parties of Corbyn and Johnson.​ In Bedford and Kempston, the Conservatives lost all their seats in May and the Liberal Democrats are in with a real chance here." ​ Daniel N

20 Nov 2019
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