Camden Council is current going through is annual process of budget-setting. An early indication of the intention of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, as indicated by the Executive in November, is for an ‘inflation’ increase of 2.5% in council tax. This figure is the same as the target for the year before, meaning that council leaders have not taken any account of the downtu...

Stephen Tall, in a terrific post at Lib Dem voice, has made a challenge: to sum up the idea of the Liberal Democrats in a single phrase or sentence. He points out that Conservatives can sum themselves up as supporters of "wealth creation", and Socialists as supporters of "equality". It is of course very difficult and may be pointless to try to sum up the richness and power of liberal ideology in a...

In these troubled economic times many politicians are all too willing to forget about crucial environmental issues. Our party is standing firm on our principles. In Parliament Square, London on the afternoon of Saturday December 6th I'll be speaking at the National Climate Change March to make it clear that the Liberal Democrats remain the only mainstream party willing to take the tough choic...

Bermondsey and Old Southwark Liberal Democrats invite you to hear Community Organisers Stephen Kearney (Henley by-election candidate) and Julia Olsen speak following their AGM. The AGM is at 7pm for 7.30pm and Stephen and Julia speak at 8pm. The AGM is for members only, but all are welcome to attend the talk afterwards. From Bermondsey and ...

Earlier today, Julian Astle laid out Centre Forum’s new policy paper about student finance. We asked Paul Holmes MP to respond. On behalf of Centre Forum Julian Astle makes a very superficial and flimsy case for joining the New Labour/Conservative club and welcoming the free market into Higher Education. First Julian sets up a straw man ...

The Liberal Democrats stand alone among the three main political parties in promising to abolish university tuition fees. They do so in the hope that making tuition ‘free’ will draw more students from low income families into the higher education (HE) system. This superficially attractive proposition ignores two important facts, however. First, there is no such thing ...

The Liberal Democrats should drop their "regressive and ineffective" opposition to tuition fees because the policy has no bearing on whether poor students go to university, a thinktank has suggested. The Lib Dems are the only party promising to abolish fees in the hope that it would draw more students from low-income households into higher education. But research by CentreForum suggests that taxpa...

Blyth Valley: Labour Mayor switches to Liberal Democrats. Islington: Conservatives choose lap-dancing establishment for their Christmas party. Related posts:Conservative councillor joins Lib Dems A Conservative councillor in Mole Valley has switched to the...Labour-run council edits out opposition councillor from its magazine Neil Williams, a Liberal Democrat councillor in the London Borough...Wat...

A break from non stop Stalin-gate theorising… The Liberal Democrats in Wales are about to elect a new leader. The two candidates are Kirsty Williams and Jenny Randerson. The Welsh Lib Dem leader will have a good chance of being deputy first minister in Wales in a couple of years time. So it’s interesting that the

by Marc Glendening, DM Campaign Director If so much as a flea catches a cold in outer Mongolia, the European Commission, the president of France and the British Liberal Democrats insist that this proves the need for a greater centralisation of power in Brussels in order to achieve 'co-ordinated action'. Rarely is it explained how exactly the transfer of yet more powers to the EU will hel...