It should be the people who can afford it the most who fund our NHS and social care services. This punishing and regressive 10% tax hike will instead disproportionately hit young people, low earners and carers who are already struggling from the pandemic.
Thank you to everyone who supported us in the local election campaign. We are proud of our positive campaigning, putting forward...
The SecAnim animal waste processing plant downstream of the Quay is going to close in Exeter much to everyone's nasal relief! Poor planning by Labour, including a lack of a Local Plan, means the site like many others (seardch 'Topsham Gap') has already been designated for housing.
Putting Devon Back on its feet image/A fresh start for Devon Devon Liberal Democrats have launched their Devon County Council...
The Green Party and Liberal Democrats in Exeter have decided to build on their 'Progressive Group' arrangement which was agreed...
The Progressive Group has challenged the Labour-led Council over a delay in implementing a new domestic waste collection strategy...
Exeter Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate Tom Deakin was joined by Lib Dem City Councillors campaigning for the by-election in Brecon and Radnorshire.
Exeter Liberal Democrats out campaigning for the European elections with the excellent candidate Eleanor Rylance https://www.facebook.com/eleanor.rylance
Exeter Liberal Democrats are fielding 13 candidates in 12 wards this year to increase our representation on Exeter City Council.
It's become universally acknowledged that our national government has become preoccupied with Brexit. Whilst other issues - housing, education, social care - get a mention every now and again, there is little space in government to generate and enact policies in these areas due to the domination of Brexit.
As Exeter's MP steps in (Echo 1/3/18) to explain the bus station issues, it poses fundamental questions. Where is Exeter Council Leader Pete Edwards? Why do half the voters in the city choose the Labour Party to run affairs when they are so obviously failing? If people oppose austerity, why do they vote for a Labour Party whose over-riding priority for over a decade has been to build a premium swimming pool? Is this what people in hardship are asking for? If people vote for the Labour Party's vision of new facilities, do they feel let down? Even though they have spent big on a pool that the swimming club doesn't like and a smaller bus station that bus users don't like, Labour have failed to deliver any development at all and have lost both their partners for the pool and the wider development with millions of pounds of planning investment wasted. Businesses, shoppers and workers will be deterred from the city centre by the double whammy of U-turn permission for out-of-town shopping and a 13% hike in par
Exeter's long awaited new railway station at Marsh Barton is running late.... in fact, so late it's years behind schedule with no sign of being built as costs sky rocket, says concerned local county councillor Alan Connett. Just two years ago, Devon County Council announced "The station is due to be opened in 2016. A half hourly frequency is expected to serve the station from 2018 as part of a major timetable revision…" But starved of essential Government funding and with costs to build the station rocketing from £4.3million to £13 million, Cllr Connett is concerned the station at Marsh Barton may never be built. "This delay is an example of the way the Government is starving Devon of much needed investment. This station is a vital link in the plans for Exeter's development along with new stations like Newcourt and Cranbrook," said Cllr Connett. "The Government refused vital funding for Marsh Barton earlier this year and the next round of grants is not until 2020, so that's at least two more years delay and i