Nick Clegg speaks with Andrew Marr after the elections.
A message to East Yorkshire voters from Nick Clegg
Dear East Yorkshire Residents,
These are difficult times for people across Britain, but this week has shown that this can also be an opportunity to reshape Britain into a fairer, more equal and greener country.
Labour's financial legacy has left Britain needing to borrow an extra £400million, every single day, just to get by. Labour also left us paying £120million in interest on our debt each and every day - for that we could build a new primary school every hour.
East Riding of Yorkshire’s share of the country’s debt now stands at a dangerous £12.04billion and something needs to be done.
But despite all this, Liberal Democrat policies coming into action this week are making a positive difference to people’s lives.
Over the last seven days in East Riding of Yorkshire, thanks to Liberal Democrats:
- 121000 people are getting a £200 income tax cut - benefiting 23 million people across the country
- 6500 people have been lifted out of paying income tax altogether, with more to come
- £625million extra has gone to our schools, aimed at the most disadvantaged pupils - rising to £2.5billion a year by 2015
- 87700 pensioners have been given an extra £4.50 a week – and those retiring from today will be on average £15,000 better off over their retirement.
Liberal Democrats in government will not stop there.
This week also saw Pensions Minister Steve Webb announcing that the Government will be introducing a simple, flat-rate state pension of £140 to replace the current complicated, unfair and means-tested system.
Business Secretary Vince Cable is cutting regulation to promote small business and create jobs.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Chris Huhne revealed that Britain will be hosting the 2012 Clean Energy Summit - putting Britain at the heart of the Green Energy Revolution.
The Liberal Democrats have entered government at one of the most challenging times for the country. We did not choose the moment but we have not shrunk from our responsibility to act in the national interest. We will not miss the opportunity we have to build a greener, fairer and more liberal Britain.
Best wishes,
Nick Clegg
Deputy Prime Minister & Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Conservative led East Riding Council wins 4 Rotton Borough Awards 2010
Private Eye is the UK's number 1 best-selling news and current affairs magazine, edited by Ian Hislop. The worst performing councils receive ‘Rotten Boroughs Awards’.
However, this year, the East Riding Council stole the show with four awards allocated.
Awards include;
Payoff of the Year, Lawyer of the Year, Pants on Fire Award & New Media Award.
Neil Bant, LibDem candidate for Beverley St. Mary's Ward, said, “These are topics that you will not read about in the East Riding News. It’s no wonder ordinary people do not trust the Council. I’m standing at the local elections because it’s about time that Beverley and Molescroft had a significant opposition to the Conservatives. I can assure you that if elected I will listen to the views of residents and do my utmost to bring those views to reality.”
For full private Eye Story see:
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=rotten_boroughs&issue=1279
Neil Bant, LibDem candidate, St. Mary's Ward, Beverley.
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Craig Dobson, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Beverley & Holderness, East Yorkshire
Election Result - 7th May 2010 |
The election result in Beverley and Holderness was:-
Conservative (G Stuart) 25,063 47.1% +6.4%
Craig Dobson (Lib Dem) 12,076 22.7 +3.6%
Labour (I. Saunders) 11,224 21.1% -14.5%
BNP 2,080 3.9% +3.9%
UKIP 1,845 3.5% -1.6%
Green 686 1.3% +1.3%Independent 225 0.4% +0.4%
Craig increased our vote by 2,498 since the last election and put us into second place. This is an especially creditable result, as Craig was not selected as our candidate until February this year.
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Taking Liberal Democrat Policies into Government
12th May 2010
The policy agreement for the new Government is full of Liberal Democrat policies. It is a real chance to put into action the ideas that we have campaigned for.
Full details of the agreement are here
Manifesto:
A Fair Start for Children
- Introduce a Pupil Premium to give all children a fair start.
Fairer taxes and Economic Reform
- A substantial increase in the personal allowance from April 2011 with a longer term policy objective of further increasing the personal allowance to £10,000, making further real terms steps each year towards this objective
- Reform of the banking system, ensuring a flow of lending to businesses and a Banking Levy. An independent commission on separating retail and investment banking.
Fair Politics
- Fixed-term parliaments and a referendum on electoral reform for the House of Commons.
- A power of recall, allowing voters to force a by-election where an MP was found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing.
- A wholly or mainly elected House of Lords on the basis of proportional representation.
- Giving Parliament control of its own agenda so that all bills are properly debated.
- Enacting the Calman Commission proposals and a referendum on further Welsh devolution.
- A statutory register of lobbyists.
- A limit on political donations and reform of party funding in order to remove big money from politics.
- Radical devolution of power and greater financial autonomy to local government and community groups.
A fair and sustainable future
- Establish a smart electricity grid and the roll-out of smart meters.
- Establish feed-in tariff systems in electricity
- A huge increase in energy from waste through anaerobic digestion.
- The creation of a green investment bank.
- The provision of home energy improvement paid for by the savings from lower energy bills.
- Retention of energy performance certificates when HIPs are scrapped.
- Measures to encourage marine energy.
- The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal-fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.
- Establish a high-speed rail network.
- Cancel the third runway at Heathrow and refuse additional runways at Gatwick and Stansted.
- Replace the Air Passenger Duty with a ‘per plane’ duty.
- The provision of a floor price for carbon, as well as efforts to persuade the EU to move towards full auctioning of ETS permits.
- Make the import or possession of illegal timber a criminal offence.
- Promote green spaces and wildlife corridors in order to halt the loss of habitats and restore biodiversity.
- Reduce central government carbon emissions by 10 per cent within 12 months.
- Increase the target for energy from renewable sources.
Pensions
- Restoration of the earnings link for the basic state pension from April 2011 with a “triple guarantee” that pensions are raised by the higher of earnings, prices or 2.5%.
- Phase out the default retirement age and end the rules requiring compulsory annuitisation at 75.
- Implement the Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman’s recommendation to make fair and transparent payments to Equitable Life policyholders.
Civil Liberties
- Scrap the ID card scheme, the National Identity register, the next generation of biometric passports and the ContactPoint Database.
- Outlaw the finger-printing of children at school without parental permission.
- Extend the scope of the Freedom of Information Act to provide greater transparency.
- Adopt the Scottish approach to stopping retention of innocent people’s DNA on the DNA database.
- Restore rights to non-violent protest.
- A review of libel laws to protect freedom of speech.
- Safeguards against the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation.
- Further regulation of CCTV.
- Ending of storage of internet and email records without good reason.
- A new mechanism to prevent the proliferation of unnecessary new criminal offences.
- End the detention of children for immigration purposes.
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