
Tories making cost-of-living crisis worse - BBC Headline on launch of Lib Dems local elections campaign
"People who usually vote Labour, but feel let down and taken for granted by Labour locally, are backing Liberal Democrat candidates instead.
"People who usually vote Labour, but feel let down and taken for granted by Labour locally, are backing Liberal Democrat candidates instead.
"Every vote for a local Lib Dem candidate is a vote for better funding for the NHS. Lib Dem plans to tackle the social care crisis and give a better deal for carers (paid and voluntary) will greatly help the NHS".
The first sentences in the BBC News story stated: "The UK must "repair our broken relationship with Europe" to boost its economic prospects, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has said. Sir Ed set out his pitch to voters on key poicies at his party's spring conference ahead of local elections in May.
"Council services are being cut, while the amount we pay for them is going up by 10%. None of the residents I spoke to felt that this sounded like a fair deal", said Matthew Taylor, Chair of Slough Lib Dems, shown in the photo leading a community litter pick in Cippenham.
March 2023 is the 20th anniversary of Tony Blair's UK Labour Government joining the "illegal" US invasion of Iraq. The Liberal Democrats, led by the late Charles Kennedy MP, were the only major UK party to oppose this war. The photo shows Charles Kennedy leading a Lib Dem protest against Tony Blair's Labour Government joining the US invasion. The UN Secretary General called the invasion "illegal". Nearly everybody now agrees the Lib Dems were right to oppose Labour's "illegal" war which made the situation in the Middle East much worse for many. Amjad Abbasi said, "I'm proud to be standing for the Lib Dems who opposed Tony Blair's Labour Government joining the "illegal" invasion of Iraq."
This April, Rishi Sunak is planning to hike average energy bills to £3,000. His plans would pile more misery on people who are already struggling with rising mortgages, rent, taxes and shopping bills. Is this because wholesale prices have gone up? No, they've gone down. Is it because Ofgem's energy price cap has increased? No, just this morning they announced it has been decreased. Rishi Sunak and his Conservative Government are making a choice. They could afford to cut bills, but instead they are putting them up. It's the wrong choice for our country, and Liberal Democrats will fight to change it, said Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey, MP..