Worcester residents are being urged to check their electoral registration details or risk losing their chance to vote on decisions that affect them.
Human Waste in Our Hedgerows! – Sign Our Petition
Human Waste in Our Hedgerows As reported in the Worcester News, Sarah Murray found bottles of urine, soiled toilet paper and a cup filled with excrement in the hedgerows on Wainwright Road on a recent litter pick with Warndon Wombles. Lorry drivers using the area for mandatory breaks in their long journeys are exiting the M5 and parking along Wainwright Road to avoid extortionate charges for overnight stops where facilities are frequently unavailable or out of order. When approached by Worcester News, all Worcestershire County Council could say was that it is a criminal offence for anyone to defecate or urinate on public open space or private land and offered to bring the matter to the attention of the police. Sarah has, therefore, started a petition to provide essential facilities for lorry drivers and put an end to the health hazard that currently exists due to lack of facilities. Please Sign Our Petition [civist src=”https://widget.civist.cloud/?api_url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.civist.cloud%2Ft%2F1f921ccc-1145-4596-9bfc-39c43f27c06d%2F#/RW1iZWRkaW5nOjliNjhlYWM3LWMxOWUtNDBhZi1hZjI1LWQzOWUzZTFhMWZmMQ==”] We won’t publish your personal details anywhere or use them for anything other than this petition. The personal data you provide is necessary for the operation of the e-petitions. We will manage your personal data as set out in our privacy notice, which includes details of your rights under data protection legislation.
River sewage vote is a failure by our Worcestershire MPs
Last week in the House of Commons MPs had the opportunity to vote for an amendment to the Government’s Environment Bill which would have placed a legal duty on water companies not to pump sewage into rivers including our own river Severn. The amendment was defeated by the votes of Conservative MPs including Worcester’s MP Robin Walker. We hear fine words from Mr Walker and his Conservative colleagues about their commitment to developing a green economy yet every time they have the opportunity to put those words into meaningful action they fail to do so. Our city and our country need local and national leaders who take environmental issues and climate change seriously. We will not achieve positive action on either with the Conservative Party in charge. In 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan penned these lines in their operetta HMS Pinafore (things haven’t changed much): “I always voted at my party’s call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.” Mel Allcott Liberal Democrat City and County Councillor, Claines This letter was originally published on the Worcester News website on the 27th October, 2021 Link: https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/19674176.river-sewage-vote-failure-worcestershire-mps/
Catastrophic cuts are facing services that we all rely on!
Worcester City Council is responsible for services like waste collection, housing, planning, environmental health and leisure centres. These services are facing drastic cuts. Worcester City Council has a funding shortfall of £1,163,000 according to UNISON (the public service union) and Worcestershire County Council a staggering £32,157,000. We are encouraging people to write to their local MP to call for much needed government funding for local councils. This can be done by clicking on the image below which will take you to the UNISON website: By using our website you may be able to directly access third party websites. We do not own, operate or control such third party websites and are not responsible for their content. When you access such third party websites you do so at your own risk and your usage of each third party website is subject to their terms and conditions of use and you agree to abide by them.
PRESS RELEASE: Racism in Sport & Cuts to International Aid
Many of you will share the Liberal Democrats dismay at two events in the last two weeks that have made us feel ashamed of our great country.
Worcestershire Liberal Democrats Climate Emergency Pledge
The climate emergency can only be tackled effectively by ensuring that every relevant decision taken by national government, local councils, businesses, investors, communities and households makes progress towards the net zero objective.
Liberal Democrats in Local Government
Hear from Ruth Dombey, leader of Liberal Democrat-run Sutton Council, where Liberal Democrats have been running the council for 35 years. All over the country, there are hundreds of thousands of people living in areas where Liberal Democrats are running the council and are in charge of public money and budgets of more than £2bn. From Cumbria to Cornwall, from York to Eastbourne, to Bath to Bedford. In Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, in Devon and the Midlands, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Hampshire and London, and many many more places as well. Liberal Democrats are working hard to show their residents what it’s like to live in a place where our values are put into practice every day. Liberal Democrat councillors represent many different communities across the country, with their own distinct identities, values and concerns, but we all have something in common. We all put our communities at the heart of everything we do. Being a councillor is not just about collecting the rubbish, cutting the grass, or fixing the potholes. It’s about bringing jobs and prosperities to the area. It’s about creating exciting town centres that people want to visit. It’s about bringing people and organisations together to tackle the climate emergency. Meanwhile, the coronavirus pandemic has shown us like never before the vital role that local councils play in all of our lives. When the government failed to provide PPE, we stepped up. When the government failed to protect people living in care homes, we stepped in. When the government wasted billions of pounds on a failed Track and Trace system, we took over. In Sutton, we are one of only three councils that still provides Meals on Wheels, because we know how important it is that people can live independently In their own homes. We are one of the few places in the country where the council directly employs specialised admiral nurses to support people living with dementia and their families. And together with the local NHS, we’ve placed a mental health counsellor in nearly every school in our borough, to give our young people the emotional resilience they need early on. We put that in place well before the pandemic hit, and as our schools open up again it is going to be a lifeline for so many young people. I am fiercely proud of the work Liberal Democrat councils and councillors are doing all over the country. You should be too. Here’s a short video with some of our inspirational Council leaders, to give you an idea of what we do and how it’s making a difference.
