My Pledges to You
With the Mayoral election approaching fast on May 5th, I have set out my pledges to local residents, as follows:
11 Apr 2011
National News
Gary Gets a Waxing for Comic Relief
Local Lib Dem Campaigner Gary Fuller helped raise money for Comic Relief recently by having his legs and arms waxed, having his hair dyed and by letting his students apply Liberal quantities of make-up to his face!
11 Apr 2011
Budget includes radical Lib Dem policy: Community Land Auctions
As ALTER President Chris Huhne hinted two weeks earlier at ALTER's AGM, George Osborne's second Coalition Government Budget on 23rd March included a surprise policy that the Lib Dem Party Conference had approved three years earlier: a pilot scheme for Community Land Auctions, to transfer most of the unearned land value uplift that goes with award of planning permission from the landowner to the community.
DTV
11 Apr 2011
Report on ALTER's activities at Lib Dem Spring Conference 11-13 March 2011
Conference began for ALTER with several members attending the consultation on Friday afternoon on the outline Inequality policy paper, where LVT was given an airing.
DTV
11 Apr 2011
Welcome to our new website.
Over the next few weeks we hope to add some content to our new site - please forgive the present lack of content. Local elections and the AV referendum are uppermost in our minds at the moment. We are hoping to elect a sufficiently large contingent of Liberal Democrat councillors to bring some much-needed democratic balance to East Devon and Mid Devon district councils.Certainly if we don't do it nobody else will. There are presently only two parties represented on both councils, plus a reasonable number of independents. That is a situation very likely to continue. We're also part of the alliance of groups campaigning for a Yes vote in the referendum. Why? To help end the jobs for life culture of arrogant MPs with safe seats, to make sure everyones vote counts, and to end the need for tactical voting.
10 Apr 2011
Tavish Scott on Tay AM
Tavish Scott, Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader, was interviewed on a Radio Tay AM election special programme earlier today.
10 Apr 2011