
Lib Dems Walk Out
Liberal Democrat councillors took the unusual step of walking out of January's council meeting.
Liberal Democrat councillors took the unusual step of walking out of January's council meeting.
Lib Dem Western Park councillor, Roger Blackmore, was formally nominated by the Liberal Democrat group at last nights full City Council meeting.
Lib Dem Councils and councillors across the country are fighting for liberal democracy. For the principles on every membership card "safeguard a fair, free and open society", with of course the balances of equality. But what does this mean on the ground?
Yesterday Diana Wallis, the first British woman Vice President of the European Parliament visited Scarborough to meet young voters. Diana, Liberal Democrat MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber spoke to students at Scarborough Sixth Form College about her role in the European Parliament. She was invited to speak by the College's Debating Society and fielded questions ranging from the demise of the teaching of foreign languages in schools to Sharia Law.
Liberal Democrats in Hinckley and Bosworth are surveying small business to get their experiences of the current financial downturn.
43,670 pensioners and families in the East Midlands had their application for a crisis loan turned down by the Government last year, figures highlighted by the Liberal Democrats have revealed.