Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Friday 12th January) gave their support to concerns expressed by Jo Swinson MP at the decision by the Department for Work and Pensions to axe their £12 million postage contract with Royal Mail.
Residents of the housing development on the Marconi Site on Anstey Lane were up in arms with the way the site had been left by Bloor Homes for almost two years.
Dundee East Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesperson Dr Clive Sneddon has tonight (Thursday 11th January) condemned the announcement today of the transfer of manufacturing jobs from Dundee to Hungary.
In Tuesday's House of Lords debate on equality in provision of goods and services, the Lib Dems were well forceful and united. Lord Lester, Lord Avebury, and Baroness Harris all argued for the legislation to be enacted, while former party leader Lord (Paddy) Ashdown also intervened to challenge Lord (Norman) Tebbit's defence of legally-endorsed bigotry. The Lib Dems were also by far the best represented major party, with only a quarter of Conservative and half of Labour peers present, two-thirds of the Lib Dem members of the Lords attended.
To learn that there was a proposal to sell-off the largest part of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Folkestone came as a real shock to local people just before Christmas - not least to the Lib Dems.
President Bush is to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq to help secure Baghdad's streets as part of a new strategy to tackle the conflict. The troop announcement brought immediate criticism from Democrats. British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett welcomed US plans, but said the UK has no plans to do the same. She said reports that 3,000 British troops would leave Iraq by May were "speculation".
