As always at these events, I learn something about a charity that I didn't know before. Apparently it costs £49,000 to breed and train a Guide Dog for the Blind and cover all the costs throughout their life. I had no idea that the charity covers all food, care and medical costs for the dogs, so no wonder they depend on charitable giving.
Welcoming the coalition government's announcement that wheel clamping on private land is to be banned, Serena Tierney, Lib Dem Parliamentary Campaigner for Mid Sussex said:
Today I made a speech about how the Coalition government is building a fairer society in Britain. Both David Cameron and I have always made it clear that we are governing Britain for the long term, not for tomorrow's headlines.
Prime Minister David Cameron has been challenged to show the same enthusiasm in tackling people who cheat on their taxes as he has on those guilty of Benefit fraud.
100 days ago the doom mongers predicted that Britain's first coalition government for 65 years would be weak, its ambitions limited and it would achieve little. Any bold act of policy or legislation risked splitting the new government in two. Just three months later, the picture looks very different.
The Lib Dem group at County Hall has pressed the Conservative administration to be more open and transparent by publishing more information and by making decisions more openly.
