At last week's conference in Brighton Liberal Democrats showed their resounding support for Ming Campbell's 'Green Tax Proposals'. The new 'Fairer, Simpler, Greener' tax policy is innovative and exciting. Ming is proving to voters that we are a party of substance and where the other main parties drown in green rhetoric and spin we are forging ahead with practicable solutions to our ever-more-alarming environmental problems.
Liberal Democrats passed a motion at last week's conference calling for Tory bus deregulation to be reversed, with local authorities being given much more control over pricing and planning of services.
Liberal Democrats have declared that local residents deserve better after Borough Council figures for the urban area revealed that at the current rate of resurfacing it would take 66 years, almost a lifetime, for every road to be resurfaced.
A Populus poll for The Times this week asked about what people think of the parties and found that the Liberal Democrats are for the many and not the few, understands the way people live their lives and cares about the problems ordinary people have to face compared to the other parties.
At a meeting to discuss six form provision in the Rochdale Borough, Rochdale MP - Paul Rowen agreed to take 2 interventions from representatives from Heywood Community School. They were concerned about the future of their school following a recent report to Rochdale's Cabinet.
The Labour Government's push to increase the number of houses in Hertfordshire and the East of England looks like it won't be matched by investments in policing and infrastructure, members of the Police Authority have been told.