It seems the Prime Minister is the only person left in the country who thinks there shouldn’t be a televised debate between party leaders at the next general election. It would be an opportunity for transparency, to reinvigorate political debate, and to put party manifestos and leaders up against one another in a fair competition. [...]

  Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires has called upon Walsall’s Tory cabinet to recognise that if, at their special cabinet meeting on Monday 3rd August they decide to uphold their decision of the 15th July to close Sneyd Community School there will be “knock-on” repercussion’s for the local community. At a meeting yesterday (Thursday) Ian said that [...]

Flooding came back to the service road alongside the Co-op at “The Square”, Lichfield Road, New Invention, so we’ve got back onto the council asking for them to resolve the problem. I can almost predict the responses. “What do you expect, it rained all day.” Well it does doesn’t it, especially during what is euphemistically called the [...]

Pleck Ward Activist Mohammed Yaqub has submitted on behalf of residents living in and around Manor Road a 66 signature petition to Walsall Council demanding action to prevent parking on and around the junction of Manor Road with Dryton Street. Mohammed helped to organise the petition after being asked by Manor Road  residents to help in [...]

  Nick Clegg We must create a sustainable economy, build a fairer society and clean up politics for good. Dear friend, Ever since I became leader of the Liberal Democrats I have been travelling the country, holding public meetings, listening and talking to the people I meet. The economy is in a mess, people are [...]

  We have received notification of Special Cabinet meeting Monday 3rd August 2009 to discuss findings of last week’s Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Panel on Sneyd Community School. The recommendation is for cabinet to confirm its decision of 15th July 2009 to close Sneyd and that current education provision on the site ceases on 31st August [...]

New figures released by the Housing Charity Shelter show that housing shortage sees record number of under-15s living in cramped conditions, the figures highlight the record number of under-15-year-olds living in cramped conditions, with one in 10 children in overcrowded housing. Shelter claim there are more than one million children in England now live in [...]

I’m off on a site visit this morning with a highways officer from Walsall Council, nothing special about that, it’s one of those things you’d expect a councillor to do. This site visit is a bit different, were’re going to look at the result of a response to a previous site visit a couple of [...]

  Liberal Democrats held onto a strong third place in the Norwich North by-election.   Thank you to Liberal Democrat activists in Norwich and around the country who supported April Pond’s campaign in the Norwich North by-election.     The result saw Labour’s vote collapse. Having won the seat with 45% of the vote at the [...]

Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable warned on Sunday Live, Sky news against “panic cuts across the board” to tackle the public finances, saying parties must concentrate on key priorities. “Any serious party going into the next general election is going to have to be honest about the scale of the problem in the public [...]