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Welcome to Hammersmith and Fulham Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity.
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Written by Merlene Emerson on Sat 6th Feb 2010
Last Wednesday, I was at Stone Masons Arms, a pub in Hammersmith, at the unearthly hour of 7a.m., not to imbibe alcohol I might add, but rather to join a group of dynamic and entrepreneurial small business owners at a networking breakfast.
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Wed 3rd Feb 2010
On 2nd February, the Electoral Commission held a Press launch at Queen Anne's Gate to announce the publication of their new bilingual leaflet to encourage voter registration. According to Jenny Watson, Chair of the Electoral Commission, about 30 per cent of British Chinese who are eligible to vote are not registered with their local authority to vote. The equivalent statistic of non registration for the rest of the population is closer to the region of 8-9%.
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Thu 28th Jan 2010
Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Hammersmith and Fulham has accused the local council of attempting to shroud the latest Met Police crime statistics in smoke and mirrors.
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Mon 25th Jan 2010
"In the past, I and the H&F Liberal Democrats have campaigned for improvements to Shepherd's Bush market, better transport links (against closure of Shepherd's Bush Central line station and on bus routes), and for more jobs for local residents in the Westfield development.
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Tue 19th Jan 2010
Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat MP led a debate in Westminster last week calling on the government to investigate the damage done to local media and local democracy by Council run, taxpayer funded council newspapers which are driving independent local newspapers out of business.
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Mon 18th Jan 2010
The Liberal Democrats have set out plans to bring a quarter of a million empty homes back into use, making homes available for people who need them and creating 65,000 jobs.
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Thu 14th Jan 2010
H&F News headline this week : "Residents Praised for Big Freeze Bravery". Indeed...
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Wed 13th Jan 2010
Liberal Democrat campaigners in Hammersmith and Fulham are challenging the council to to justify the lack of gritting of pavements in the borough, after complaints about the dangers posed to pedestrians.
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Wed 13th Jan 2010
H&F Council's campaign to block Thames Water's super-sewer continues with our councillors writing to colleagues on other councils hoping to persuade them to take the same obstructive approach to the project, even though the tunnel now has the backing of (Tory) Mayor at City Hall.
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Tue 12th Jan 2010
Hammersmith and Fulham Council's Planning Department is apparently going forward on Leader Stephen Greenhalgh's promise last November to learn from the mistakes made in the Goldhawk Industrial Estate planning application (now "called in" by the Minister, but sadly too late to prevent Innocent Drinks finding a new home outside the Borough). .
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Fri 8th Jan 2010
This week David Cameron came to town and warned us to beware of "black propaganda".
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Written by Merlene Emerson and published in Operation Black Vote blog http://operationblackvote.wordpress.com/ on Thu 7th Jan 2010
The new year has begun with the major parties starting their election campaigns in earnest, even though Prime Minister Brown has hinted that we should discount a March election.
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"I hate to say it, but only one party leader seems to have grasped that, if you construct a system where unskilled people are worse off by taking a job than by staying on welfare, they remain trapped in poverty - and that is Nick Clegg. "
Lord Norman Tebbit
Daily Telegraph online - 13 Jan
"It's unbelievable that the Tories are still planning to cut taxes for a handful of millionaires when the majority of people across the country are feeling the squeeze. We need fair tax cuts that put money back in the pockets of ordinary people. The Tory sums simply do not stack up. It is irresponsible and highly misleading for George Osborne to continue to pretend that they do. "
Vince Cable MP
Responding to Conservative Spending Plans - 4 Jan
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