Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Farron meets with Guild over the plight of pub owners
Local MP Tim Farron yesterday met with the Guild of Master Victuallers to discuss the plight of the tenant publican. Pubcos are leaving their lessees in dire financial trouble after charging them extortionately high rent prices and leaving little room for negotiation. During the meeting Farron pledged to write to the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to ask for a meeting with Secretary of State John Hutton.
8 May 2008
Local MP presses DEFRA on Hill Farm Allowance replacement
Local MP Tim Farron is pressing the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the timetable for the implementation of the successor scheme to the troubled Hill Farm Allowance program. Mr Farron has been urging the Department to ensure a full and proper consultation takes place involving farmers, not just Whitehall executives so that the problems of the HFA can be avoided this time round.
8 May 2008
Farron fights for affordable housing
Local MP Tim Farron is to present his idea for creating more affordable housing in the South Lakeland area to the Local Development Framework of South Lakeland District Council this week. First time buyers in the area are struggling to establish themselves and much of the existing housing is swallowed up as second homes.
8 May 2008
Liberal Democrats win key concessions for the people of Wolverhampton
Liberal Democrat Councillors on Wolverhampton City Council have won a number of key concessions to improve the lives of the residents of Wolverhampton.
8 May 2008
Alan Lewis supports Blue Badge holders
Alan is angry that people without a Blue Badge abuse parking spaces allocated for people with disabilities in supermarket car parks.
8 May 2008
Our Condolences to Cllr Dhan Gurung
Shepway Lib Dems would like to offer our huge sympathies to Cheriton Councillor Dhan Gurung, whose Mother died last night. Dhan only recently lost his father, and will be travelling back to Nepal tomorrow, and returning to Folkestone around 25th May.
8 May 2008