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Welcome
You're probably already familiar with our community newsletter "Focus". This Website is an on-line version of "Focus". If you visit this site regularly you'll see that we keep the site updated with information about Southampton and your community.
As you know, Liberal Democrats Councillors and Focus Teams work all year 'round to improve your community. If there is any way we can be of help, please do get in touch!
If you share our passion for working for local people and believe in the Liberal Democrats aims, why not join us? By being a member you keep in touch with the Party throughout the year, join us at our regular social events, and get a vote in all Party Elections.
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Sun 25th Jan 2009
Southampton's Liberal Democrats have selected their candidate to fight in the city's Test seat at the next general election. David Callaghan was chosen by the local Lib Dem party members as their choice to take on the constituency's current MP, Alan Whitehead.
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Read "Lib Dems Complete Election Team" in full (284 words).
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Sun 4th Jan 2009
People today are struggling with spiralling debts, rising food and energy bills and unaffordable mortgages. A decade of complacency by Gordon Brown has meant that with plummeting house prices, falling growth, inflation problems and rising unemployment, the UK economic outlook has not looked so bleak since the 1990's Tory recession. So after the 10p tax fiasco and ineffective 2.5p VAT cut what the economic situation actually demands is a fairer economic future.
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Read "Fairer Economic Future" in full (223 words).
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Mon 24th Nov 2008
From next April, under 16s and over 60s will be able to swim for FREE at Fleming Park Leisure Centre, thanks to Eastleigh Borough Council deciding to take part in a national scheme to boost fitness for young and old alike. Unfortunately the good people of neighbouring Southampton are not so fortunate, because the Conservative run City Council there has decided not to take part.
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Read "Free swimming in Lib Dem Eastleigh not Tory Southampton" in full (520 words).
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Tue 14th Oct 2008
The Government is 'fire fighting' to help the banking sector, but it is not just the bank sector that needs help from the Government the whole economy needs a boost from a change of thinking at the top. Inflation has hit as 16-year high and like everyone else in the country, residents of West End and Southampton are suffering from rocketing food and energy prices.
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Read "The Government must help the whole economy " in full (923 words).
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Fri 26th Sep 2008
It's an ongoing disgrace: Gurkhas who retired from the British Army after 1997 can automatically stay in the UK, but those who retired earlier must apply, and many have been refused and face deportation. Pension rights for years served by Gurkhas before 1997 count at only around a quarter of the level of years served after that time. Now the high court has backed the Gurkhas campaign the government must not only give all retired Gurkhas the right to live in this country, but must give all Gurkhas a full British army pension when they retire.
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Read "Support the Gurkhas" in full (487 words).
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Tue 22nd Jul 2008
Townhill Infants School gives the children very best start to their education according to the latest Ofsted report. The school was given the highest possible grade of "outstanding" across the board following its inspection. The inspection was also backed by the test results with pupils gaining higher than above average standards in reading, writing and maths by the end of year two.
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Read "Outstanding local school receives outstanding report" in full (383 words).
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| Southampton Itchen General Election Result |
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Turnout: 43225 (56%)
48.3%
Labour: 20871 (−6.2%)
26.8%
Conservative: 11569 (−0.6%)
21.2%
Liberal Democrat: 9162 (+6.2%)
View the results in detail.
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| Quotes of the Week |
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"I hate to say it, but only one party leader seems to have grasped that, if you construct a system where unskilled people are worse off by taking a job than by staying on welfare, they remain trapped in poverty - and that is Nick Clegg. "
Lord Norman Tebbit
Daily Telegraph online - 13 Jan
"It's unbelievable that the Tories are still planning to cut taxes for a handful of millionaires when the majority of people across the country are feeling the squeeze. We need fair tax cuts that put money back in the pockets of ordinary people. The Tory sums simply do not stack up. It is irresponsible and highly misleading for George Osborne to continue to pretend that they do. "
Vince Cable MP
Responding to Conservative Spending Plans - 4 Jan
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| Southampton Test General Election Result |
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Turnout: 41783 (54%)
42.7%
Labour: 17845 (−9.8%)
25.9%
Conservative: 10827 (+0.4%)
24.8%
Liberal Democrat: 10368 (+6.7%)
View the results in detail.
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