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Welcome to Bristol East Liberal Democrats
Welcome to our website, part of the campaign of the Bristol East Liberal Democrats team to keep in touch with local residents across the area - all year round.
Learn more about Bristol East Prospective Member of Parliament, Mike Popham.
This site includes recent news from the Liberal Democrats, contact information, and more about our campaigning locally and nationally. Most importantly though, we want it to be a way YOU can give us your views and get involved.
Bristol East 'Fed Up with Status Quo'
Fri 4th Jun 2010
Bristol East Spokesman Mike Popham says thank you to voters. The election period showed that people were fed up with the status quo and wanted a change to the business as usual attitude to politics. What I got was a clear message that people love Bristol but have a passion to make it even better. During the campaign I spoke to countless residents, delivered leaflets and answered your enquiries.
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Labour and Tories will leave students with £44,000 debts - Clegg
Thu 29th Apr 2010
Students will be saddled with debts as high as £44,000 in the next five years under Labour and Conservative plans to raise tuition fees after the election, the Liberal Democrats have predicted. Only the Liberal Democrats are committed to scrapping tuition fees and opposing any attempt to raise them. We will phase out tuition fees over six years, starting by immediately scrapping final year fees for students doing their first degree.
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Equality for service veterans - Popham
Sat 24th Apr 2010
For a number of years the AFPG campaign has pursued equality in pensions for regular service veterans who left before April 1975 with less than 22 years for Other Ranks or 16 years for commissioned Officers. Those leaving from April 1975 onwards receive pro-rata pensions whereas those who left earlier received nothing. Following a recent re-structuring the campaign has now been incorporated as an activity stream within the newly formed Equality for Veterans Association (EVA).
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Kerry McCarthy, Labour's Bristol East MP plays with the sick and dying
Sat 24th Apr 2010
Kerry McCarthy caused a delay in the Bill that called for improvements for patients contaminated with bad blood when undergoing NHS treatment. The Haemophilia Society and the Tainted Blood group have adopted a name and shame approach to those it believes are delaying progress on the reforms, and Kerry McCarthy has been named and shamed.
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Clegg Scores Second Win in Party Leaders Debate
Fri 23rd Apr 2010
An average of five polls conducted immediately after the Sky TV Leaders Election debate on Thursday night put Nick Clegg as the winner, with all instant polls showing him ahead of Gordon Brown. After the Foreign Affairs-led debate from Bristol dominated by issues like Iraq, immigration and climate change, Nick Clegg won 3 of the 5 polls on the night, building on his position after the first debate.
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"How can you possibly take on such a large financial commitment as Trident without considering the military and political implications? If fierce cuts are to be made in Britain's conventional forces, surely we have to consider whether replacing Trident can be justified. "
Sir Menzies Campbell
Response to announcement that the Ministry of Defence will be responsible for the cost of replacing Trident - 30 July
"With most of their leadership contenders claiming to back AV for a fairer voting system, it is astonishing they now wish to block the legislation to make that happen. Each and every Labour MP campaigned on a manifesto committing to a referendum. Now they have the opportunity to make this happen but have chosen to say no for opposition's sake. "
Simon Hughes MP
Comment on Labour's decision to oppose legislation for a referendum on the alternative vote - 28 July
"With more than half of ASBOs breached in 2008, this was a policy more about posturing than effective policing. Local communities know that other measures, such as Acceptable Behaviour Contracts can nip problems in the bud before they escalate. "
Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Committee for Home Affairs and Justice, Tom Brake MP
Commenting on speech by the Home Secretary in which she said it was 'time to move beyond Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) - 28 July
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