South Lincolnshire Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats demand better for South Lincolnshire. We want to give all our children a brighter future in a fairer Britain where people are decent to each other, with good schools and hospitals, a clean environment and an innovative economy. We cover two Parliamentary Constituencies in South Lincolnshire, Grantham and Stamford in South West Lincolnshire & South Holland and the Deepings in South East Lincolnshire, covering the South Kesteven District Council and South Holland District Council local authority areas. Grantham and Stamford	ChrisTMAS DRAW TICKETS On Sale Now! £1,500 Cash and many More Prizes
The Westminster Parliamentary constituency of Grantham and Stamford covers the towns of Grantham, Stamford and Bourne in Lincolnshire with surrounding villages. South Holland and The Deepings
The Westminster Parliamentary constituency of South Holland and the Deepings covers Spalding, Holbeach, Long Sutton, Sutton Bridge, Crowland, Donington, Gosberton, Surfleet, Pinchbeck, Whaplode, Moulton, Weston and surrounding villages and roughly corresponds to the South Holland local government district, with Market Deeping, Deeping St James, Deeping St Nicholas and West Deeping added to it.
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Recent Website updates Ed Davey responds to Philip Davies Article: Oct 22, 2021 Conservative MP Philip Davies has started taking a surprising interest in the Liberal Democrats' commitment to an equal parliament, and our internal selection procedures. Perhaps he has decided to turn his back on his sexist views, or perhaps he has a different motive. Read Philip Davies' letter to Ed Davey, and Ed's reply: Another step towards scrapping the Vagrancy Act 🙌 Article: Oct 20, 2021 We did it! The Vagrancy Bill is a blunt outdated instrument that makes criminals of rough sleepers. It hurts the people most in need in our society. Liberal Democrats have been fighting to scrap it for years. And today, the Prime Minister has been dragged kicking and screaming to a point where even he admits it needs to go. Making energy saving the nation's first priority is the best way forward. Article: Oct 19, 2021 By Jed Marson In Green Liberal Democrats we are adamant. Making energy saving the nation's first priority is the best way forward. Compare the limited £3.9 billion announced over 3 years, to provide only 90,000 homes with a new type of hearing, with the £150 billion programme LibDem Leader, Ed Davey, proposes. That will insulate the social housing stock and help homeowners. How? Industry will develop new materials and switch to new products with technology we know about and some new that we don't know about now, to all but completely free us from the need for heating new domestic and commercial buildings. Changing regulations is key. If everyone has to meet the new regulations the scale of the market for sustainable tech will bring down prices in a competitive market. How will we pay for insulating homes? Vulnerability to escalating gas cost now shows that it won't take many years to recoup the cost to retrofit an existing property. The right government programme LibDems propose will result in the same quality of replacement technologies that will be m used by a newly sustainable industry supplying to new homes. The insulation of older homes will be much more complicated than for a new home and costly. Simple starts include thermal blinds until the windows need replacing. Then make it triple glazing and keep the blinds! The walls are complicated. It's the challenge every householder must tackle over time. Here in politics, government allows some big picture oddities. Consider this. At least two oil companies announced plans to buy back shares with spare profits. Their industry is subsidised. How's that wise? Sorry, that's a silly question with a government that talks about a new language in politics but spends more of its time covering up bad judgment and preference of donors. That could be explained by the £18 million in donations to the Conservative Party from developers. That means archaic building regulations will persist, with 20% plus profit margins in a cartel that sees too few homes built to bring supply up to demand, rabbit hutches and a generation that can't really afford a home. Then things get technical. Homes that don't include what's permitted in solar, haven't a hope of going above that level to tiles and 3 phase, to enable the whole roof of all new buildings to be covered in solar. The regulations stifle the ability for those buildings to be carbon neutral on day one. 3 phase is needed beyond the currently permitted solar panel limit. A government that swaps Ministers and doesn't get to the bottom of the numbers is all unfortunate for future generations and that's who we must ask to vote for us to change all this. Are you asking how it can it change, when lobby groups with money from the fossil fuel industry are heard and listened to, above the voice of the people, the science and reason? If we can get people to see that, their votes can help us to make the changes needed. Right now you can join the LibDems, help start and become active in a Green LibDem group in your region. See BBC article : Grants to replace gas boilers with heat pumps not enough, say critics Ed Davey on Net Zero: Government ignoring City of London "elephant in the room" Article: Oct 19, 2021 By Lib Dems Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has warned that the Government's new Net Zero Strategy is ignoring the "elephant in the room" by failing to include measures to stop investment in fossil fuel industries through the City of London. The former Energy and Climate Change Secretary is calling for new oil, gas and coal companies to be banned from the London Stock Exchange and for urgent action to stop the UK hosting the world's fossil fuel investments. Christmas Draw tickets on sale now! Article: Oct 17, 2021 Fancy £1,500 CASH? This is just one of the many prizes on offer in our Christmas Draw. Tickets are now on sale priced at £1.00 each. Every ticket sold will help boost our funds at the start of next year. The draw takes place on 9th December. National Hate Crime Awareness Week Article: Oct 15, 2021 During National Hate Crime Awareness Week, LDDA executive member and wheelchair user Julie Adnams Hatch shares how a recent experience of hate crime affected her. She explains how to report hate crime and why it's so important to record every incident. This #NationalHCAW we want to talk about disability hate crime. It can have a profound effect on people's lives. It's not anti-social behaviour so we need to make sure we identify and record it for what it is. Find out more ➡️ https://t.co/xJSc0M5g88 #ZeroTolerance2Hate pic.twitter.com/lFigtAizsC - Devon & Cornwall Police (@DC_Police) October 14, 2021 Join us for an EU Policy Consultation Article: Oct 14, 2021 By Greg Foster In collaboration with the Liberal Democrat European Group, the Federal Policy Committee are organising regional events giving members a chance to shape our policy on Europe. We want to hear your thoughts on what our priority areas should be, what solutions you might have to problems raised and how we can continue to promote a close relationship with Europe. The new political season Article: Oct 13, 2021 The autumn party conferences traditionally mark the start of the new political season. They are a time to reflect on the past year and set out plans to succeed in the coming year. Both politics and coronavirus have made it a tough time since the last round of conferences. But we can look forward to this new political season with confidence that if we continue to raise our game, we can prosper. We've seen signs of that already, including with Sarah Green's fantastic win in Chesham and Amersham and also with the latest net favourability leadership polling from Savanta ComRes: Conference in 2022 Article: Oct 13, 2021 The Federal Conference Committee recently met to discuss the Conference format for 2022. We considered a number of options for next year's conferences and took the difficult decision to hold Spring Conference as an online conference and only returning to an in-person event for Autumn Conference. The dates of Spring Conference will be 11-13 March 2022 and we will announce the dates and venue for Autumn Conference in due course. Federal Board Open Surgery - Questions welcome - Mon 18th Oct Article: Oct 13, 2021 On Monday 18th of October the Board will hosting a surgery for all Party members. This session will be Caron Lindsay from Scotland, Bill Powell from Wales and Party President, Dr Mark Pack. This is an open invitation to everyone, whether you have a burning question, have an issue you'd like to raise, or would just like to get to know the Board a bit better, Older items	Tweets by @SouthLincsLD