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Damage to Greatfield Road

Lib Dems call on Council to fix our roads

Local Liberal Democrats are calling on the Conservative-run County Council to fix our roads and pavements. The County Council has paid out over half a million pounds compensating motorists for damage caused by potholes since 2012. And Lib Dem County Councillors have revealed that at the current rate of repair it would take 123 years to resurface Hampshire's pavements. Local Lib Dem campaigner Leola Card said, "The Lib Dem team have been out in the North Farnborough area and have reported many potholes to Hampshire County Council for repair. In many areas of Farnborough the roads are becoming increasingly busy with heavy traffic. Maintenance of these roads should be a high priority."

20 Feb 2017
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Anita Day

Blair: Help or Hindrance?

Last September in a speech at Federal Conference, Tim Farron referenced Tony Blair with a phrase which stuck in my mind: 'I see Tony Blair the way I see the Stone Roses… I preferred the early work!' He cannot have imagined then that Blair would be in the headlines again this week after a speech for Open Britain in which he urged the country to rise up and form a cross-party movement to oppose Brexit. Objective observers praised his speech as being articulate and well thought-through, and it reminded us again why he was considered one of the most skilful communicators of his generation. Of course his intervention was greeted with immediate derision from Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nigel Farage… and Jeremy Corbyn (which says something in itself, but that's another matter.)

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20 Feb 2017
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So how is our vote share shaping up?

Earlier in the week, on a whim, I collated figures for every vote cast so far this year,* by party, expecting either the Tories or Labour to lead by a decent margin. The actual result surprised me - prior to this week's by-elections, the Lib Dems were leading Labour by over 800 votes despite standing in barely over half the contests. Even after those by-elections, which were decidedly mixed for the Lib Dems (1 hold, 1 gain, 2 losses, 1 no-show), we're still leading the pack, 500 or so votes ahead of Labour.

JG
20 Feb 2017
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Speedy Delivery

Speedy leaflet delivery

The last two Sundays I have been helping with our campaign in Stoke-on-Trent by delivering leaflets. The first visit I set off on a blustery, drizzly day with an armful of slippery leaflets. Within five minutes the leaflets had cascaded to the ground buffeted by the strong gusts of wind. I suppose this is one way of distributing leaflets!

JR
20 Feb 2017
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Zulfiqar Ali

David Vigar comes to Stoke-on-Trent

When I was growing up in Lincolnshire one of the great 'urban myths' in the school ground was that Jimi Hendrix played Spalding. Only recently did it emerge that in fact this was no myth, but a hard solid evidential truth. On Spring Bank Holiday Monday May 29th 1967 he played at the Buld Auction Sheds. Now it is a matter of some legend as to whether people were there or not. In fact, given the truths emerging in Stoke-on-Trent I am wondering if Paul Nuttall saw Jimi Hendrix in Spalding back then - I better check his website… (joke)

EF
20 Feb 2017
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