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Welcome to Cheltenham Liberal Democrats
Thank you from Martin Horwood, MP for Cheltenham
Welcome to the website of Cheltenham Liberal Democrats.
My name is Martin Horwood and I'm the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cheltenham - a tradition that stretches back to the town's first MP, the Liberal Craven Berkeley in 1832. I was born and brought up in Cheltenham and I lived and worked here with my family before I was an MP, so when I fight to protect our green spaces, to defend local NHS services and see the best for our children, these are issues that really matter to me.
I'm also proud that we have a Liberal Democrat-led council and that the LibDems introduced the first kerbside recycling of glass, paper, cans, green waste and now cardboard, that they held out a helping hand to charities like the Cheltenham Housing Aid Centre when the last Conservative administration cut their funding and that they were the first to change council policy to help stop 'garden-grabbing' overdevelopment.
On this website you'll find out more about what we've been campaigning about, links to the national party, our leader Nick Clegg, Liberal Youth and much, much more.
I hope you'll become part of Cheltenham's great Liberal tradition too and help us fight for greener, safer, fairer Cheltenham. Use the contact us link to get in touch. I'll look forward to meeting you.
Martin gives cautious welcome to schools review
Tue 30th Jun 2009
Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood has cautiously welcomed the government's announcement today that Conservative-run Gloucestershire County Council and two other councils will be investigated by expert education advisers. The reason for the expert review, according to Secretary of State Ed Balls, was that Gloucestershire needed 'to make more progress' in tackling underperformance in 'a handful of schools'.
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Protesters urge council - "don't sell us short"
Wed 24th Jun 2009
On Wednesday 24th June, campaigners from the Save the Countryside group presented their local County Councillor Suzanne Williams with a petition containing over 1500 signatures, urging the County Council to resist the temptation to sell any land to developers that is currently in the greenbelt.
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Digital Britain report offers hope to Springbank
Wed 17th Jun 2009
CHELTENHAM MP Martin Horwood has today given a cautious welcome to the Digital Britain report on the future of broadband and other digital communications. Secretary of State Ben Bradshaw announced several measures that could make broadband services better and faster in areas like Springbank in Cheltenham which has suffered from poor broadband speeds because of its distance from the central Cheltenham exchange. The minister specifically referred to clusters in urban areas that suffered from a poor service.
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Martin welcomes RSS delay
Wed 17th Jun 2009
A LEGAL CHALLENGE in the East of England has scuppered the government's chances of announcing the final version of the South West's Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) this month, a development welcomed by Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood. The challenge was based on the failure of the Eastern RSS to make a proper assessment of the strategy's impact on the environment. The announcement has not been made in Parliament by ministers but in a short emailed letter to local authorities by the regional director at the Government Office of the South West, Jon Bright.
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Martin offers Hazel one last chance on green fields
Tue 2nd Jun 2009
CHELTENHAM MP Martin Horwood has launched a stinging attack on the consultation process that led to the current draft of the South West Regional Spatial Strategy but offered embattled Secretary of State Hazel Blears one last chance to 'delight' Cheltenham people by making changes that would save valued green spaces around Cheltenham. Martin made the comments in the House of Commons during the second reading debate on the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill. He said the bill threatened to 'make regional government less democratic, less accountable and even more vulnerable to diktat from the Secretary of State and Ministers'.
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| Cheltenham General Election Result |
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Turnout: 43621 (61%)
41.5%
Liberal Democrat: 18122 (−6.2%)
36.3%
Conservative: 15819 (+1.1%)
11.4%
Labour: 4988 (−0.6%)
View the results in detail.
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| Quotes of the Week |
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"On issue after issue, the Liberal Democrats have led the fight for real change while the Conservatives lagged behind. On the economy, on the environment and now on the real reform of politics, it is the Lib Dems that are offering something different. "
April Pond, Liberal Democrat candidate for the Norwich North by-election
www.norwichlibdems.org.uk - 21 June
"I believe that my position as an MP between now and the next election is untenable. "
Labour MP Ian Gibson
Resigning as MP for Norwich North - 6 June. See www.norwichlibdems.org.uk for Norwich North by-election news.
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