Ealing Liberal Democrats

Having opportunities to lead healthier lives and access to healthcare services are important priorities for local people. On occasion concerns and suggestions have been raised at ward forums. You may therefore be interested to hear about this event:

You are invited to the 'Keep Ealing Healthy' health fair from 2 - 5pm on Wednesday 23 May at Ealing Town Hall.

This is an opportunity to talk to local GPs and find out about their plans for improving healthcare for people living in Ealing.

There will also be a number of stalls offering health advice.

Ealing GPs are leading on the commissioning of healthcare services in Ealing and have formed the Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group who are hosting this event.

Attendance figures for the council year 2011-12 once again show that Elthorne Lib Dem Cllr Nigel Bakhai has a 100% record in attending every meeting that he was scheduled to be at.

In all, he attended 33 meetings which is four more meetings in 2011-12 than the previous year when he also had a perfect attendance record. One reason for this increase in the number of meetings is that this year has seen a few extra specially arranged council meetings in August following the riots, and again in May to debate the refuse and recycling problems after the change in council contractor from May Gurney to Enterprise. Furthermore, while Cllr Bakhai served on a crime & community safety scrutiny panel in 2010-11 which met five times, this panel has been disbanded and he is now the Lib Dem representative on the Health and Adult Social Services Standing Scrutiny Panel which meets more frequently.

Caroline Pidgeon, leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group and chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee, commenting on new proposals from Transport for London to allow Oyster card users to check their accounts online and to allow Oyster customers to submit refund applications online said:

Please find below a copy of the text of my speech to the May 2012 special council meeting into the problems with the new waste and recycling contract:-

Mr Mayor, I rise to second the Lib Dem amendment

Rubbish

That's the first word that comes to mind when residents are asked what they think of the council's refuse and recycling collections in recent weeks.

Brian Paddick, Lib Dem London mayoral candidate did a "walk-about" in Ealing Broadway on Saturday 7 April, accompanied by Mike Cox, candidate for Ealing and Hillingdon's London Assembly member.

Supported by a team of local members (see picture), this was part of a whistle-stop tour to listen to voters' concerns. High on the list of points raised by those he spoke to was the continued slow response of the authorities to victims of the riots.

Over 20 million working people will be better off next year after Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government delivered the biggest ever increase in the income tax personal allowance in the Budget.

The massive £3.5bn tax cut for working people delivers:

• The biggest ever single uplift in the tax threshold
• A personal allowance of £9,205 in April 2013
• 21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
• Brings the total tax cut for basic rate tax payers to £550
• Brings the total number of people lifted out of tax to 2 million.

Ealing Broadway station entrance is a serious hazard, and Turnham Green also poses significant risks to passengers. So says Liberal Democrat President Tim Farron MP, who visited the borough on Tuesday.

"I was shocked to see how bad it really is," said Mr Farron. "I knew some of the background, but until you see the actual situation it's impossible to appreciate the true extent of how serious, even dangerous, the position is."

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg used his speech to the Party's Spring conference in NewcastleGateshead to call for the forthcoming budget to be a "budget for fairness" and pledged that it would help working familes.

The Deputy Prime Minister pledged that by 2015 Britain would have seen an end to control orders, the first gay marriages and the first elections to the House of Lords.

Fairer taxes, promoting green jobs, protecting your civil liberties - these are just some of the achievements of the Liberal Democrats in government.

We're building a freer, greener and more liberal country - and stopping some of the worst excesses of the Conservatives. Find out more in this infographic.