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Welcome to the website of the Liberal Democrats in the new constituency of Derbyshire Dales
We aim to: Trust in People - Make Derbyshire Dales Free, Fair and Green
Free local education and healthcare so that everyone is free to make the most of their lives. Fair taxes because taxes should help improve our environment or make life in Derbyshire Dales more fair, not less. And finally, Trust, because it is time to restore trust in local and national government.
Our intention is that this website will be a useful resource for local people to find out more about Liberal Democrats in Derbyshire Dales and the campaigns we are running.
However, we would like it to be more than that - we would like to hear from you. Online you can:
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Written by Editorial on Tue 2nd Jun 2009
Labour will do badly this Thursday, in local and European elections, and deserves to do badly. Can anyone who shares ideals of progress and reform summon up anything more than sullen tolerance of the party at the moment? The expenses scandal has hit the Tories deeply too, but a week in which the chancellor (a decent and busy man) finds himself writing cheques to his own department to repay accommodation claims cannot be anything other than depressing. The prime minister made a simple statement yesterday, "I am in the best position to clean up the political system," he told the BBC. That promise has not been matched by action. Today the government will set out plans for the constitution. Voters ought to ask why it has taken so long, and how serious the commitment to change is.
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Read "Local and European elections: Thursday's choice" in full (678 words).
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Written by Decca Aitkenhead meets Nick Clegg and published in Guardian - G2 on Mon 1st Jun 2009
Politicians' nicknames are seldom flattering, but the joke going round Westminster for the last year about "Invisible Clegg" had seemed particularly cruel - chiefly on account of ringing true. When we met a fortnight ago, at Waterloo station, I'm pretty sure I was the only person on the concourse to recognise him - and on the train journey to his home in south-west London, he drew not so much as a flicker of interest from other passengers. For the leader of a third party struggling to make an impact, invisibility is an ominous quality.
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Read "'I've seen enough of my predecessors being led up the garden path and then disappointed' " in full (2480 words).
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Written by By Suzanne Moore and published in Daily Mail on Mon 1st Jun 2009
Something is missing, something it's difficult to put your finger on. Public anger and even hysteria about MPs' expenses is all around us. At least this is what the media keep telling us. But are you feeling it? Or am I sleepwalking through a revolution? Well it is half-term, so it's just possible that I am.
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Read "The great unwashed are vaguely annoyed. They need stirring" in full (714 words).
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Written by Vince Cable - Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman and published in Mail on Sunday on Sun 31st May 2009
The future of Britain's car industry now seems a sideshow compared with the sordid details of the Great Expenses Scandal. One MP's claim for refurbishing his servants' quarters and another's creative approach to family living arrangements fan the flames of public indignation. But my worry is that Parliament fiddles while the economy burns.
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Read "It's time to get personal... just go Mr Darling" in full (817 words).
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