Barnet Liberal Democrats will put forward proposals tonight (3 March) to restore the most severe cuts in the Council's budget and also provide for extra money for new and better services, whilst at the same time reducing the rise in Council tax. The proposals put forward by the Conservatives would mean an inflation busting increase in Council tax coupled with savage cuts to services and increases in charges.
A year ago as the Lib Dems gathered in Liverpool for our spring conference the newspapers were full of the story of gay asylum seeker Mehdi Kazemi. Twelve months on, this week a petition on the government's petition site closes - calling on the Prime Minister to stop deporting gays and lesbians to countries where they may be imprisoned, tortured or executed because of their sexuality. Lib Dems including Lorely Burt MP, Lynne Featherstone MP, Tom Brake MP and Jo Swinson MP have signed already: make sure you sign it before the weekend!
Lib Dem Deputy Leader, Vince Cable, will be speaking at the Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrats fringe meeting in Harrogate on Friday 6th March at 8pm.
A senior local Liberal Democrat has criticised the decision to award more work on the Royal Navy's two aircraft carriers to Scottish shipyards.
For all those who thought that UKIP could be a credible voice in British politics, rather than a ragbag of extremists, xenophobes and conspiracy-theorists, evidence to the contrary has now been provided courtesy of their candidate for the European Parliament, Stuart Agnew.
Folkestone Town Councillors Bev Rolfe, Richard Theobold, Tim Prater, Gary Fuller, Lynne Beaumont were amongst the trainees on Saturday in using Folkestone Town Council's new "Speed Watch" equipment. The Speed Watch display uses radar to check the speed of approaching vehicles and display that speed to the motorist along with a "Slow Down" message if the vehicle is above the speed limit.