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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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Mon 8th Mar 2010
Tory Councillor Harry Phibbs is making sure to get his alibis in early, after Hammersmith and Fulham Liberal Democrats highlighted the unfunded tax cuts in the Council's last pre-election budget and warned of the inevitable post-election tax rises.
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Mon 8th Mar 2010
There is indeed much to celebrate of strides that have been made by women, their achievements both within the family as well as in greater society. However there are still areas for much concern.
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Mon 8th Mar 2010
Fulham Liberal Democrats have been undertaking surveys of residents to assess priorities for future spending on roads, and the level of support for a 20mph speed limit.
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Sat 6th Mar 2010
Parents in Hammersmith and Fulham have been left disappointed and frustrated after only about half of the pupils in the borough made it into their preferred secondary school, well below the London average of 65 per cent for first choice admissions.
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Written by Dirk Hazell, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesman for Fulham and Chelsea and published in Fulham Chronicle on Thu 25th Feb 2010
As Westminster commentators become more and more convinced that no party will have an overall majority after the general election, it may be worth looking at recent events in Scotland, where voters had decided that parties must work together.
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Published in BBC website on Wed 10th Feb 2010
The mayor plans to cut 455 police officers over the next three years.
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Written by Merlene Emerson on Sat 6th Feb 2010
Merlene shares her experience at a power breakfast and reflects on how small businesses can withstand the economic downturn
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Thu 4th Mar 2010
It's official. Liberal Democrats are better at reducing crime than the other parties! In Lib Dem-controlled councils, including most of our biggest cities, crime has fallen by 20 per cent, more than in Tory or Labour areas.
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Sun 28th Feb 2010
Local Liberal Democrats have warned of future sharp increases in Council Tax, as Conservative -controlled H&F Council confirmed that this year's 3% cut will be financed not out of revenue but by drawing £2.8 million from reserves.
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Sun 28th Feb 2010
Local Liberal Democrat's kicked off the new year with a "Survey of Shops", asking retailers around Askew Road how they are faring in the recession. The team, including our Hammersmith Lib Dem candidate in the forthcoming parliamentary election, Merlene Emerson, set out on what turned out as one of the coldest days of the year to speak to shop-keepers.
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Sun 28th Feb 2010
The Tory administration is boasting of how it is reducing Council Taxes by reducing the Council's budget. While we agree Labour left the Council in a mess, Hammersmith and Fulham Liberal Democrats are concerned that many of the co-called "efficiencies" are very real cuts to services.
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Mon 22nd Feb 2010
On the evening of Friday 19 February, Foreign Secretary David Miliband came to Hammersmith at the invitation of Labour MP Andrew Slaughter and held a public meeting at St Paul's Church near the Broadway.
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"Anyone who wants to pass laws in this country should pay this country's full taxes and not hide behind the special offshore status of non-doms. Non-doms have to tell the taxman that their first allegiance is to another country. No-one should be a British lawmaker whose first allegiance is not to Britain. "
Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary
www.libdems.org.uk - 2 March
"I think people are entitled to expect a sensible, stable government at a time when the country is facing very, very acute choices. We take what the markets are worrying about immensely seriously. We will not take any risk with the creditworthiness of the economy. "
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Financial Times - 3 March
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