Dundee City Council's LibDem Convener of Finance Cllr Fraser Macpherson today (Tuesday 21st March) renewed the City Council administration's pledge to campaign for an improved Revenue Support Grant settlement for Dundee.
Dundee East Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesperson Dr Clive Sneddon has strongly criticised the attitude of Tesco management to Dundee, and welcomed the efforts being made by the Dundee City Council Administration to secure a rethink of Tesco's decision to close its distribution depot in Dundee.
The Government was yet again been defeated in the House of Lords on its plans to make Identity Cards compulsory. Ministers propose that anyone getting a passport from 2008 should have to get an ID card and have their biometric details added to the national identity database. Peers voted by 211 to 175 votes, a majority of 36, to keep the ID card scheme voluntary until the next decade, a compromise tabled by Liberal Democrat peer Lord Philips of Sudbury under which holders of passports would be added to the register from 2011 enabling the controversial issue to be debated in the next General Election.
A BBC Newsnight poll suggests that half of all voters think Tony Blair should quit soon.
On the bitterly cold evening of 12 March when sympathy was felt for the Doorman standing outside, things were really hot down in the VIVAZ club on Huntriss Row between 7 - 12.30.
Dundee Liberal Democrats have today (Tuesday 21st March) welcomed the decision by Dundee City Council to support abolition of the tolls on the Tay Road Bridge.