Your Liberal Britain - come and discuss our future
Sevenoaks, Dartford and Gravesham Discussion Groups 2016 In four rolling discussion groups we talked through issues and...
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23 Nov 2016
National News
Third runway at Heathrow conflicts with UK's climate reduction obligations
Zac Goldsmith resigned his seat in Richmond Park on a point of principle, when the Conservative government approved the third runway at Heathrow in October (2016).
22 Nov 2016
Hinckley County Councillor calls for increased not reduced NHS services locally.
Leicestershire Better care together have published draft plans which could see the Mount Road Hospital in Hinckley close and a reduction in the number of hospital beds in Hinckley.
22 Nov 2016
Stepping Hill Campaign Update
On Wednesday I took our petition to 10 Downing Street, to show Theresa May how we feel about the cuts to our Hospital. The more than 6,000 signatures(931 from High Peak) have been handed to the Government for consideration before the Autumn Statement this week.
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22 Nov 2016
Farron calls for two new ambulances for South Lakeland
Local MP Tim Farron has reiterated his call for two extra ambulances for the South Lakes following a meeting with the chief executive of the North West Ambulance Service yesterday. Tim will write to health commissioners to call for two additional ambulances for the area - one to be based in Kendal and one in Windermere.
22 Nov 2016
No ‘Benefit Tourism’ in Leipzig
The issue of 'benefit tourism' is as much of an issue in Germany, where it is known as 'social tourism', as it has been in Britain. The concern has been that people could simply use freedom of movement as a means of moving to another EU country where the system of social insurance is more generous than that of their home country. Although there is obviously a certain potential for such benefit tourism, answers to repeated questions in the Bundestag have consistently revealed that it is not a mass phenomenon. In May 2014 the German Government reported "a few dozen" "suspected" cases country-wide. The following month it reported that it had no data itself, but referred to a "not insignificant number" of "suspected" sham marriages.
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22 Nov 2016