A well-attended party for Liberal Democrat members and election helpers in Hemel Hempstead was held recently to thank people for their hard work, to review progress and success and to consider future activity and campaigning.
A well-attended party for Liberal Democrat members and election helpers in Hemel Hempstead was held recently to thank people for their hard work, to review progress and success and to consider future activity and campaigning.
European commission's approach of 'nothing is agreed till everything is agreed' puts citizens' rights at risk, party says EU citizens in the UK and Britons living in Europe will face a further 18 months of turmoil unless the European commission urgently changes its stance on agreeing an early deal on citizens' rights, a former Lib Dem cabinet minister has warned.
Politics is an exercise in caricature. Politicians are caricatured as heroes and heroines by their supporters - as villains and hexes by their enemies. One moment they're up, the next they're down (don't I know it). One moment Theresa May was held aloft as a latter day Boudica, the next she is condemned as the most hapless PM in modern times. One moment Jeremy Corbyn is condemned as a bumbling fool, the next he is held aloft as a man with the wisdom of a Buddhist monk and the radicalism of Che Guevara. You know you're in trouble when Polly Toynbee from the Guardian and Paul Dacre from the Mail direct the same level of spleen at you Sometimes caricature helps to illuminate an underlying truth. But often it only serves to obscure reality.
A recent report published by Labour-run Southwark Council has highlighted significant financial mismanagement after it was revealed that it utilised over £27 million of Southwark’s depleting reserves in the last financial year.
This year Liberal Democrats celebrate a more open liberal society, with same-sex couples able to marry and now huge steps forward for gender recognition.