Liberal Democrat Leader Charles Kennedy today launched the Liberal Democrat Pre-manifesto - the first important stage in the manifesto process, which will take the Party into the General Election.
Under new Liberal Democrat proposals police chiefs would sign contracts with local communities setting out how many officers they would deploy. The "minimum policing guarantees" would set funding levels for local police for a rolling three-year period. The guarantees are part of the party's new plans to tackle crime. The plans include using money earmarked for the government's ID card plan to hire an extra 10,000 front line police and 20,000 community support officers.
Surrey County Council is not following the national "Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity" when issuing press releases about local issues in county councillors divisions.
Councillor Stephen Cooksey (Dorking and the Holmwoods), the Liberal Democrat Environment and Transport Spokesperson on Surrey County Council, has today called upon the county's Conservative administration to: "take more seriously, the problems that have beset the current highways contracts and to take urgent action to deal with them".
A leading Liberal Democrat county councillor has called on Surrey County Council's Standards Committee to investigate an email sent by Cllr John Butcher, a member of the ruling Conservative group, calling for health policies which would "encourage the self-inflicted to move away from Surrey to areas where there is no differentiation between patients on the grounds of their contribution towards their condition".
County Council admits plan to run libraries with volunteers will not save Council Taxpayers a penny
Councillor Hazel Watson, Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition on Surrey County Council, has tabled the following four written questions to the Leader of the Council for the Annual General Meeting on 8 May 2012.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council have called on the Conservative-run administration to abandon it's ill-conceived and unpopular plans for 10 of the County's libraries to be run by "volunteers" instead of professional librarians.
