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Bristol City Council Elections May 2013
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Bristol City Council Elections May 2013
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Campaigning for Lower Taxes
The Liberal Democrats want fairer taxes, which is why we made raising the tax-free allowance our priority at the Election, By April, 171,800 ordinary working people in Bristol will get a further Income Tax cut, bringing the total tax cut to £600 a year.
Providing Primary School Places
We've secured £42 million in Government funding and allocated another £20 million of capital spending to the Council Budget to create new primary school places across Bristol. We've created 370 new school places for September 2012.
We’re successfully campaigning for Government funding for transport in Bristol. We've secured £197 million of investment to create a rapid transit network for Bristol.
Empowering Communities
We believe in giving local people control over the areas where they live. Through Neighbourhood Partnerships, we’ve given local communities and their Councillors direct influence on services and control over spending in their neighbourhoods.
Recycling
We've increased recycling rates in Bristol. We've introduced doorstep collection of plastics. We cancelled Labour plans for an incinerator, and created a high-tech residual waste treatment centre.
In Communities
Liberal Democrat Councillors represent 19 out of 35 wards in Bristol. Our Councillors are local champions who fight for their communities, work hard to resolve local issues, and help people with individual difficulties.
In the Council
The Liberal Democrats are the largest political group on Bristol City Council, and led the Council between 2009 until 2012 when Bristol elected its first mayor. We’re still working hard to transform the Council: making it more efficient, whilst improving services. As community champions we are helping deliver investment in transport, schools, and parks; driving up recycling rates and reducing carbon emissions.
In Parliament
Liberal Democrat Stephen Williams was first elected as MP for Bristol West in 2005. Stephen and his colleagues in Parliament are fighting for Lib Dem policies that benefit ordinary people in Bristol, and delivering on Lib Dem priorities: to make tax fairer; build a sustainable, balanced economy; and give every child a fair start in life.
When one observes the fortunes of the Liberal Democrats in Bristol, it is little wonder that so many people are pessimistic about their prospects for 2015. In Bristol city council elections, 2009, the Liberal Democrats made four gains from Labour which gave them overall control of the council. On 6th May 2010, two further gains [...]
MAYOR George Ferguson is today (Tuesday, May 21) being challenged to appear before a crucial meeting of city councillors to answer questions about his beleaguered “residents’ parking” scheme. The scheme – designed to stop commuters clogging Bristol’s streets – will see thousands of residents and businesses forced to pay to park, whether they agree with [...]
BUSINESSES face “devastating” charges of more than £3,000 a year under city council plans for a new parking scheme designed to stop commuters clogging up Bristol streets. Mayor George Ferguson is today (Monday, May 20) being warned by the council’s Liberal Democrat group to halt potentially disastrous residents’ parking plans. The shattering effect the council’s [...]
Stephen Williams MP is urging communities in Bristol to apply for the new £6 million First World War: then and now fund, which the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has launched. HLF is making at least £1 million available per year until 2019 to provide grants of between £3,000 and £10,000. The money will enable groups across [...]
ADVISERS to Bristol Mayor George Ferguson are letting him down badly over plans for so-called residents’ parking across the city. Liberal Democrat councillors today warn that local needs and concerns that they have already raised with the team working for the Mayor are being ignored. A special scrutiny committee meeting of the city council will [...]
COUNCILLORS in one of the areas Bristol Mayor George Ferguson is eyeing up for a residents’ parking scheme have hit out at the lack of consultation. Just three weeks is being allowed for people affected to comment on the plans, which are designed to stop commuters clogging up Bristol streets. The Westbury Park area of [...]
Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams, joined campaigners from charity Action Aid this week to call for an end to burning food crops to fuel our cars when 1 in 8 on our planet goes hungry every day. Action Aid collected thousands of petition signatures from around the UK on symbolic ‘grains of wheat’, which were [...]
Stephen Williams, MP for Bristol West, has called on local schools to take part in My Money Week (3 to 9 June), giving pupils the chance to learn more about money and personal finance. Every primary and secondary school in Bristol West is being given the chance to take part for free in My Money Week, [...]
Bristol West’s Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams was yesterday granted the honour of giving one of the “Humble Addresses”, following the State Opening of Parliament. Following the pomp and circumstance of the Queen’s Speech, which lays out the Government’s legislative programme for the new session of Parliament, MPs return to the House of Commons to [...]
A new £2 million scheme has been launched by the Coalition Government to help boost childcare businesses and help women back into work. From this week, people who want to set up a nursery can apply for grants of up to £500 to help cover things like legal and insurance costs, training, equipment and adaptations [...]