Origionally Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By Helen Duffett  Yesterday the Yes to Fairer Votes published its donor list and is calling on all its opponents to do the same. From the Yes website: We are campaigning for better politics and as part of that we have decided to declare who is funding our campaign in [...]

A £180 million bursary scheme to help the poorest teenagers has been welcomed by the Liberal Democrat MP for  Cambridge, Julian Huppert.  The scheme will replace the Education Maintenance Allowance bringing a guaranteed payment of £1,200 a year for the most vulnerable teenagers and a discretionary fund for schools and colleges to hand out.  Julian said: [...]

The No to AV camp’s bogus claims on extremism suffered another blow today as community leaders and people of different faiths and none united in a show of support for a Yes vote. Nick Griffin’s party are actively campaigning for a No vote, having sneaked into town halls across Britain on a tiny minority of [...]

Responding to the article by Conservative Co-Chairman Baroness Warsi in the Sun today, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness (Kishwer) Falkner dismissed claims that the Fairer Votes referendum would help extremist parties.  Commenting, Baroness Falkner said: “I’m shocked and frankly appalled by the distortions being spun today by Baroness Warsi and the ‘No’ campaign.    “Using the [...]

Liberal Democrat councillors representing Short Heath and New Invention areas of Willenhall attended a consultation meeting last night organised by CENTRO (the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority) to have an input into a review being carried out on bus services to the West of Walsall and Wolverhampton reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. “The Liberal [...]

New research by Consumer Focus shows that two-thirds of people who opened a cash ISA with a ‘teaser’ interest rate are likely to be losing out by failing to switch once the higher introductory interest rate runs out.  The consumer watchdog is raising concerns because in a market 15 million customers use, worth £172 billion, [...]

Research has found that although 94% of consumers fear identity theft and fraud, many keep too much personal data on mobile phones, according to credit reference agency Equifax. The research also found that 40% of smartphone users do not use the passcode function on their phone, leaving all their personal information readily available if their [...]

Since when has listening to people during a consultation period and adjusting your plans to respond to the results of that consultation been a massive climbdown? That seems to be the line Labour has taken over the issue of Education Maintenance Allowances (EMA) and Coalition plans. Plans which are designed to put the money where it is [...]

A change in the way in which Walsall’s Tory controlled council picks litter from greenspaces appears to be having the same adverse effect on land off Pennine Way as that reported last week on Coppice Farm Way says Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. The Short Heath Lib Dem Focus team were out delivering the latest edition [...]

According to the Daily Telegraph, Labour’s Legacy which heavily used Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes to fund major schemes, shows that the taxpayer is being left with a lasting legacy of debt. Between 1997 and 2010 more than 100 hospitals were built, but Labour Ministers only paid £5 billion of the £65 billion – the [...]