West Dorset
Liberal Democrats
UK National Identity Card (Design Mock-up)

Government is covering up the facts about ID cards

The Freedom of Information watchdog ordered the Department of Work and Pensions to publish its findings about how the cards could fight ID fraud, the department has decided to appeal against the ruling. Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said "The public has a right to know if the billions of pounds the government is committing to this massive project will be money well spent. It is a measure of the government's failure to justify ID cards that during the passage of the bill they never once released a full estimate of its costs and impact."

7 Jul 2006
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Faded Car Park / Parking sign

Official: They Just DON'T Care

A recent spot check on a Folkestone Town Centre car park confirms the decline in our area. Shellons Street car park near Guildhall Street was selected at random, but the check revealed at least seven major issues with the state of the car park, from litter to graffiti, uncut verges to damaged kerbs.

7 Jul 2006
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Four Chelmsford Lib Dems set out to deliver leaflets in the Bromley by-election

Lib Dems would win Chelmsford on much less than Bromley swing

The 14% swing from Conservatives to Lib Dems in the Bromley by-election on 29 June is more than double what the Lib Dems need to win the Chelmsford constituency. The drop in the Conservative majority of 11% is the worst by-election result for the Conservatives in a Tory seat since Wirral South in February 1997 - the last days of the John Major premiership.

6 Jul 2006
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