In his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference, Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has outlined his goals for the Government and the country over the coming years. He reiterated his commitment to liberal values on the environment and human rights and his determination to ensure a fair chance for every child, saying "every child can do good things, great things, if only we give them the opportunities they deserve."
By John Coburn in Westminster Focus September 2011
Bayswater Lib Dems have discovered that the local Conservative-run council has sent a letter to the disabled residents informing them that the Westminster Centre for Independent Living will close in September.
Staffing levels at the Centre, on Westbourne Park Road, have already been cut without regard to health and safety. Residents have not been informed where alternative services will be provided, without which they will be isolated at home.
The Bayswater Business Improvement District (BID), set up by the Council in January 2010, is a continuing scandal: small businesses which refused to pay the 2% levy on top of greatly increased rates, because they see zero benefit to them, were bludgeoned to pay up in June by Court action. But the story is not over yet: local Liberal Democrats plan to survey all businesses in the area to learn how many would support either excluding small businesses from the BID or winding the whole thing up.
Over 100 people have signed an online petition to save the site of the Marylebone Farmers' Market after Westminster Council revealed it will yet again review its future.
Moxon Street car park, tucked away behind Marylebone High Street , has been home to the weekly farmers' market since 2003. The council is asking for views on what should happen to it in the future.
The local Liberal Democrats campaign for residents all-year-round. Take a look around the website, and you will see that we are standing up for communities and keeping an eagle eye on the council.
Unlike the other parties, the Liberal Democrats do not receive million-pound cheques from rich businesspeople or the trade unions. We rely on smaller donations from our party members to pay for our campaigning.
While we support cross-borough working to reduce costs, we are dismayed by the lack of consultation by the majority Conservative Party on the principle of merging services and we therefore cannot support the concept of what would be in effect the creation of a super-majority without scrutiny of the opposition.
Westminster Liberal Democrats are calling for local people to back their campaign to protect ticket office opening hours at all Underground stations.
Under proposals put forward by Boris Johnson, the Conservative Mayor of London, ticket office opening hours at all but one of Westminster's Underground stations will be slashed.
