Having spent another weekend photographing potholes across New Invention and Short Heath I couldn’t believe what I was hearing from Tory cabinet members at last night’s Corporate Scrutiny Panel as they defended a proposal to change the council’s “repairing highway defects” policy in order to save £20,000 each year. The proposal shifts the response time for […]

Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By Paul Burstow MP | Published 31st January 2012 – 2:24 pm I never really thought I’d be giving interviews on the topic of poo, but that’s exactly what I was doing yesterday. It’s all part of a drive to encourage more people than ever before to spot the signs of bowel cancer. […]

Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires has called for security to be stepped up to give efforts to bring back into use an empty property on the Lichfield Road, New Invention next to the M6. The property has twice been the subject of fire damage and became the subject of enforcement action last year following an […]

Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By The Voice | Published 31st January 2012 – 7:35 am Lib Dem MPs, including the party’s deputy leader Simon Hughes, look set to obtain concessions from Iain Duncan Smith to win their support for the Coalition’s controversial welfare bill, which will introduce a benefit cap of a maximum of £26,000. Here’s how The […]

Fast track the Lib Dem £10,000 income tax threshold policy – e-petitions epetitions.direct.gov.uk Please sign this to persuade George Osborne to fast track the Lib Dem policy to increase the income tax threshold to £10,000 in the next budget, and hence take thousands more people out of tax and put £700 back in people’s pockets. […]

The ongoing battle to restore essential links to local services annexed at the time of the West Walsall/Wolverhampton Bus Review last summer by the re-routing of the 41 Walsall to Willenhall service  rumbles on reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. The issues around the reliability of this service appear to have improved but there still remains […]

Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By Dick Newby | Published 24th January 2012 – 3:24 pm This coming Friday I will introduce the Second Reading of a Bill which has the capacity to permanently change the way in which public sector bodies procure services – whether local authorities, NHS trusts or Government Departments. It will require them to […]

Posted on Liberal Democrat Voice By Stephen Tall | Published 24th January 2012 – 8:29 pm Remember the last Labour government’s record on post offices? Their numbers fell by more than 7,100, or 38%. But not any more, as a result of Lib Dem action within the Coalition — as Lib Dem Voice first reported here almost 18 months […]

Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By Gareth Epps | Published 23rd January 2012 – 4:54 pm The Liberal Democrats’ vision of a John Lewis economy, and an end to ‘crony capitalism’, articulated by Nick Clegg, is welcome. So how does Government need to change? The answer, it seems, lies in the habitual practices of the Department of Business, […]