Steve Webb predicts how the Chancellor will change - and reduce - pension tax relief When a government is in the early stages of thinking about an issue it often publishes a Green Paper. This is a discussion document, usually asking more questions than it answers, designed to test ideas and seek feedback.
Why not join us for our regular Liberal Drinks monthly get together in Leicester City Centre at The Ale Wagon, 27 Rutland Street, Leicester. The third Thursday each month has been chosen as a fixed date.
It's a nice problem to have. It's an unexpected problem to have. But it's still a problem: quite what should local parties do with all the new members flooding in since polling day, the vast majority of whom are new to political parties. Party HQ itself is getting much right that it hasn't with previous bursts of new members: prompt member surveys, new member packs, welcome calls and getting people signed up to direct debit (much easier to renew) are all things done a bit in the past but now happening much more systematically.
Adrian Barnes, Liberal Democrat candidate for the position of Mayor of Leicester, has been told by some bus drivers that the congestion in the City has added up to 30 minutes to some routes. One of Adrian's supporters is Adham Fisher who holds the Guinness World Records for the fastest time to visit every station on the New York Underground and the Paris Metro.
A number of constituents have asked me to support nature by backing Bob. I am committed to protecting wildlife and the environment and I am glad that nature and wildlife means so much to people in this Leicester. I am proud that the Liberal Democrats are creating a stronger, greener economy that values wildlife and protect green spaces. In 2011, the Coalition Government published the first White Paper on the natural environment for over 20 years. Successive Labour and Tory governments had neglected this area, and I am pleased that the Lib Dems have put nature back on the political agenda.
