Gareth Wilson

Liberal Democrat Campaigner for Haddenham & Aldreth Learn more

Nick Clegg writes to Gareth

by Gareth Wilson on 9 June, 2010

Dear Gareth, Yesterday I was proud to be at the Government Dispatch Box in the House of Commons moving a motion in support of a Queen’s Speech that committed to delivering long cherished Liberal Democrat policies. Over the coming months we will bring forward legislation for much needed political reform and the restoration of our […]

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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 […]

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“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 […]

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LIB DEMS SURGE AHEAD WITH ALL OUT OFFENSIVE IN SE CAMBS

by 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 […]

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Jonathan Chatfield writes

by 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 […]

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Jonathan Chatfield

by 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 […]

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Fair taxes for all

by 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 […]

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Market Stalls Tory U Turn

by 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 […]

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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 […]

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Suppporting Ely Market

by 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 […]

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