Council Tax is an unfair tax and should be abolished. Local residents have been hit by rising Council Tax bills in recent years. Under the Conservative County Council, tax bills have nearly doubled in just eight years.
Many people have been shocked and surprised at the negative and nasty leaflet received from Michael Howard's Conservative candidate in the Totnes Constituency. Concentrating on a series of statements about Liberal Democrat policy that are simply untrue, it does nothing to promote Conservative policies for tackling some very important issues.
Earlier in the Campaign, the Liberal Democrats launched their manifesto for Black and Minority Ethnic communities and set out their support for diversity in Britain.
This evening Colin Ross, Liberal Democrat candidate for Wolverhampton South West attended Penn Ecumenical Council hustings at St. Michael's Church on Coalway Road in Penn. The hustings were not as well attended as others have been , which was disappointing. However, the audience participation was very high with a number of insightful questions on national and local issues as well as on moral questions.
West Chelmsford's Lib Dem Westminster Candidate Stephen Robinson says, "A report published today by the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies entitled "Proposed Tax and Benefit Changes: Winners and losers in the next term", says that 70% of households would be best off under Liberal Democrat plans, compared to those of Conservative and Labour parties."
Charles Kennedy, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, responding to the publication in full of the Attorney-General's legal advice, said "If Tony Blair couldn't trust his own Cabinet with the full facts, if he couldn't trust the Commons, then why should the country trust him on May 5th?"
