At a hustings meeting this evening, held at The Station Hotel, Worksop, Leon Duveen was selected as the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Bassetlaw. Leon has been active in the local Lib Dem party for a number of years and has lead their campaign in recent local elections. Although born in London, he has […]

Today I received this letter from Nick Clegg & I want to share it with you: Dear Leon, It is hard to avoid the news of the violence and humanitarian suffering coming from Iraq and Syria. I am appalled by the idea of British people travelling abroad to fight in the name of a murderous […]

Today I spoke to Liberal Democrat supporters about the way forward for our party. We made a tough decision in 2010 to put the country before the party and provide Britain with a stable government in extraordinarily tough times. Millions of people have kept their jobs because of us and the economy is back on […]

There is no hiding from the fact that our results in both the District Council Elections & in the European Elections were disappointing and worse than we had expected. We would like to thank all those who did vote for us and can promise that we will carry on fighting for Liberal Democrat ideas here […]

The Newark local party unanimously adopted David Watts as their Liberal Democrat candidate to fight the Newark Parliamentary by election on June 5th. Local Party Chair, Marylyn Rayner said ‘ “I’m delighted to have David as our candidate. He’s a good, warm and trustworthy man. He is just what the people of Newark deserve”. Cllr […]

Yesterday, the four leading candidates to become President of the Commission met in an English language debate to discuss the issues that face the EU in the next 5 years yet there was no (or very little) coverage of this in the UK media even though we will be voting in 3 weeks time for […]

East Midlands Liberal Democrats have nominated a full slate of five candidates for the European Elections on May 22 2014: Bill Newton Dunn MEP, Issan Ghazni, Phil Knowles, George Smid and Deborah Newton-Cook.     The Liberal Democrat Manifesto Bill Newton Dunn Bill Newton Dunn is Britain’s longest serving and most experienced MEP. He has […]

Bassetlaw Liberal Democrats believe in: No Fracking or Unconventional Gas Extraction in Bassetlaw Local decisions devolved down to Parish & Town Councils Town Councils for Retford & Worksop Supporting communities set up local energy cooperatives to help keep energy costs down Keeping the Council Tax down & not rejecting government grants to do so because […]

Yesterday, I received a complaint from our MP, John Mann, about a Facebook Group I run on behalf of Bassetlaw Against Fracking.  It seems he has taken exception to some of the posts there, particularly one about David Cameron. I am a believer in free speech and have tried to let members post to the […]

Reform of the controversial Work Capability Assessment system was called for in a motion overwhelmingly carried at the East Midlands Liberal Democrat conference. The motion, proposed by Bosworth Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Cllr Michael Mullaney and Seconded by Amber Valley parliamentary candidate Kate Smith, received overwhelming support at the conference. Speaking at the conference Cllr […]