Arsonists struck at The Square, Lichfield Road, New Invention this morning reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires who attended the scene shortly after the arrival of the fire brigade. Fly-tipped furniture had been dragged under the steps leading to the flats above the Co-op and had deliberately set on fire by arsonists. “The frightening thing [...]

Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires has reported the duvet dumped by the bus stop opposite Hillbury Drive in Coppice Farm Way. It should be removed within the next couple of days but why oh why having got it this point didn’t the fly-tipper just go the extra mile and take it to the tip? 

Speaking to policitics.co.uk just before his election as the new Labour Leader Ed Miliband admitted harbouring regrets over his role writing the 2010 Labour general election manifesto. During an interview with politics.co.uk, Ed Miliband was asked why civil liberties did not play a more substantial role in the document, given the focus he has placed [...]

By Adrian Sanders MP | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 31st October 2010 – 4:50 pm People outside of London who cannot afford to buy a home or meet their rent without help from the benefit system are missing out in the current debate on the capping of Housing Benefit. The housing benefit bill doubled under [...]

By Dominic Curran | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 31st October 2010 – 12:53 pm This recent debate about housing benefit has been explosive, with anger and froth expelled by both sides of the debate. And with Christmas coming, I can’t help feeling that there are many out there whose approach to housing the poor is [...]

By Callum Leslie | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 31st October 2010 – 10:27 am Members of the Liberal Youth Executive are taking part in this year’s ‘Movember’ to help raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity. The challenge states that participants must be clean shaven on November the 1st, and grow only a moustache for [...]

By Iain Roberts | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 30th October 2010 – 9:35 pm Those listening to Labour’s outrage about the so-called “social cleansing” they believe would result in capping Housing Benefit to four hundred pounds a week might get he impression that Labour opposes the policy. Odd, then, that it appears in the Labour [...]

By Colin Eldridge | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 30th October 2010 – 6:25 pm Going into a coalition government with another party was always going to be hard, particularly with the Tories! It feels to me like a trip to the dentist. Something I know is the right thing to do for the long term, [...]

By NewsHound | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 30th October 2010 – 2:55 pm There’s an interview with Nick Clegg in the November issue of Esquire magazine, out in full on 4th November. A preview of the interview is on Mail Online under the title: Clegg: “I’m so hated that people put dog mess through my [...]

Andrew Stunell, Wed 27th Oct 2010: Communities Minister and Hazel Grove MP Andrew Stunell has today announced that Liberal Democrats in government will deliver the biggest net increase in social housing in thirty years…… Continue reading @ http://bit.ly/cHUcFy