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by Gareth Wilson on 17 May, 2010
Pauline and I went to Birmingham on Sunday 16 May to attend the Liberal Democrat Special Conference. The only item on the agenda was the coalition agreement. You can read this ageement in full by clicking on the “-Coalition Agreement” heading on useful links on the left of the web site. Over 2,000 Lib Dem […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 12 May, 2010
“We are now going to form a new government. More importantly than anything else, we are going to form a new kind of government; I hope this is the start of a new kind of politics I have always believed in. Diverse, plural, where politicians with different points of view find a way to work […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 27 April, 2010
LIB DEMS SURGE AHEAD WITH ALL OUT OFFENSIVE IN SE CAMBS Battling Liberal Democrats are surging ahead with an all-out offensive in South East Cambridgeshire after the Labour opposition candidate was thrown out of his party for discussing his sexual exploits on the internet. They have called in leading strategists to discuss new election tactics […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 26 April, 2010
Dear All, I have always resisted the temptation to start an online diary or blog. But I thought you might be interested in 48 hours in the life of a Lib Dem parliamentary candidate. Yesterday morning saw me up bright and early to drive to Ely. All candidates (seven of us now) had been invited […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 19 April, 2010
Jonathan Chatfield writes We have just completed the first week of a four-week campaign and it’s been a good week. The Manifesto launch went well and so did the first Prime Ministerial debate. This is all good, but it is just one quarter of the campaign and one third of the debates. There is much […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 9 April, 2010
Yesterday: Campaigning in Liverpool Nick Clegg described the Conservatives’ pledge to protect low and middle-income earners from tax rises as a ‘bit of a con’ and that only millionaires would get tax breaks under the Tories. Today: Nick Clegg will attack Tory spending plans during a speech in Glasgow. Extract from speech: “Every Scottish person […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 26 February, 2010
Ian, Gareth, Jeremy and Jonathan Chatfield at Ely Market East Cambs District Council have reversed their decision regarding Ely markets, which would have caused about 20 traders to lose their livelihoods, and the market itself to change in style My motion was accepted, with a minor amendment by the Tories to enable them to reverse everything […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 26 February, 2010
Villagers are warned they could face up to 1,000 lorries a day going past their homes if plans to extract 1.4 million tons of sand and gravel from nearby pits is given the go-ahead. Liberal Democrats fear the villages could become main routes for heavy lorries travelling from the pits in Mepal, Block Fen and […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 16 February, 2010
Support Ely Markets We, the undersigned, petition East Cambridgeshire District Council to support Ely Market traders through the current recession and not to implement proposed cuts in the 2010/2011 Council budget which will remove the facility to rent pre-erected stalls from the Council and to consult fully with the market traders’ representatives before any changes […]
Read more Leave a commentby Gareth Wilson on 5 February, 2010
The Conservative Administration of East Cambs District Council is not listening. Cllr James Palmer on Radio Cambridgeshire this morning stated that there were 61 traders waiting to come to Ely market. If this is true, then why did they not accept the Liberal Democrat amendment to add 15 extra stalls to the market and get […]
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