Yesterday Nick Clegg announced that there will be a referendum on electoral reform in May 2011. Our current voting system is unfair, the Liberal Democrats, for example, received a quarter of the vote nationally in this year’s General Election yet won less than 10% of parliamentary seats.
Yesterday (Sunday 16 May) there was a Liberal Democrat Special Conference in Birmingham to discuss the coalition with the Conservatives.
It’s been an interesting and unusual experience for us all after the election. In Britain we are not used to coalitions and the negotiations that follow an election result such as we have just witnessed. Dawn Barnes gives her point of view.
It was a good night for the Liberal Democrats in West Oxfordshire as we held our second place in the General Election and doubled our lead over Labour. In addition we won two District Council seats with Julian Cooper being elected for Woodstock and Bladon and Larry Poole in Eynsham and Cassington, both replacing Conservatives.
West Oxfordshire usually has many more hustings than the two it has had this election. This time there was one in Woodstock, without either the Labour or Conservative candidates,
Both party leader, Nick Clegg, and local candidate, Dawn Barnes, are determined to find ways to engage with disillusioned voters. Nick Clegg was a great supporter of the live TV debates, in which he emerged as the ‘winner’
Published and promoted by Neil Walton on behalf of D Barnes (Liberal Democrat) both at Witney Liberal Democrats, 27 Park End Street, Oxford, OXON, OX1 1HU
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