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Walthamstow Homeowners at Risk from House Price Crash

Tue 15th Apr 2008

Local Liberal Democrats have expressed their concern after Walthamstow homeowners were told that they face an "above average" risk of suffering from negative equity.

Council House Street Property in Lambeth (photography: Polly Mackenzie)

Lib Dems Force Labour Climbdown Over Support for Post Office Closures

Tue 25th Mar 2008

Liberal Democrats on Waltham Forest Council have forced Labour councillors into an embarrassing climb down over local post office closures.

Post Offices

Walthamstow Lib Dems Attack 'Opportunistic' Campaign Over Post Office Closures

Fri 14th Mar 2008

Walthamstow Liberal Democrats have launched a stinging attack on Labour parliamentary candidate Stella Creasy, accusing her of "two-faced opportunism" over local post office closures.

Royal Mail van in front of Post Office. (photography: Matt Raines)

Local Lib Dems Lash Out at "Green Cop Out" Budget

Thu 13th Mar 2008

Liberal Democrats on Waltham Forest Council have branded the Government's budget announcement as "a great green cop out".

Plastic bags

Lib Dems Slam Labour "Hypocrisy" Over Post Office Closures

Mon 3rd Mar 2008

Farid Ahmed, the Liberal Democrats parliamentary spokesman for Walthamstow, has hit out at local Labour representatives for performing a 'u-turn' on the issue of Post Office closures.

Royal Mail Post Box (photography: Season Prater)

Walthamstow Lib Dems delight at latest victory over Labour

Thu 21st Feb 2008

Liberal Democrats in Walthamstow are celebrating another victory over Labour after the party took back a council seat in nearby Leyton which was left vacant after the expulsion of Labour councillor Miranda Grell.

(l-r) Meral Ece (GLA candidate), Cllr Sean Meiszner, Cllr Peter Woollcott and Farid Ahmed (photography: Ben Wright)

Local Lib Dems Anger at Post Office Closures

Thu 21st Feb 2008

Liberal Democrats in Waltham Forest have reacted with anger to the news that six Post Offices in Waltham Forest face the axe.

Walthamstow parliamentary candidate Farid Ahmed joins Brian Paddick in protesting against Post Office closures. (photography: Ben Wright)

Walthamstow GLA Candidate pledges to fight for fairer fuel bills for Londoners

Wed 30th Jan 2008

Liberal Democrat campaigner Meral Ece has pledged to fight for fairer fuel bills for Londoners.

Meral Ece, Cllr Sean Meiszner, Peter Woollcott and Farid Ahmed (photography: Ben Wright)

Social care review is 'slap in the face' for elderly - Lamb

Tue 29th Jan 2008

Walthamstow Liberal Democrats have joined parliamentary colleagues in criticising the Government's record on healthcare reform after another day of disaster

elderly resident holding hands with young care worker

Brian Paddick Joins Liberal Democrat Team in Walthamstow

Mon 28th Jan 2008

Liberal Democrat London Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick came to Walthamstow on Saturday to speak to residents and give his backing to Farid Ahmed and the Walthamstow Liberal Democrat team.

Brian Paddick with Walthamstow PPC Farid Ahmed  (photography: Ben Wright)

Local Lib Dem Councillors Play Major role in Manifesto Preparation

Thu 24th Jan 2008

Liberal Democrat councillors from Walthamstow met with colleagues from all over the UK in London recently to discuss the party's manifesto for the next General Election in the first major public appearance of new Leader, Nick Clegg.

Nick Clegg

Lib Dems Want Action to Protect Playing Fields

Tue 22nd Jan 2008

Local Liberal Democrats have reacted angrily to the news that Labour is failing to live up to its promise to protect playing fields.

London 2012 (photography: jo Swinson)

Lib Dems Call for Rethink of Crime Reduction Methods

Fri 18th Jan 2008

Local Liberal Democrats have called for Britain's 'Surveillance Society' to be curtailed.

Farid Ahmed PPC speaking at the Liberal Democrat's Annual Conference (photography: Farid Ahmed)

Local Lib Dems Concerned by Data Loss

Thu 17th Jan 2008

Local Liberal Democrats have expressed their concern about the most recent loss of personal data records, this time from Whipps Cross hospital, and repeated their call for the Labour government to abandon plans to make people carry identity cards.

Nick Clegg MP new leader of the Liberal Democrats

Local Lib Dems Celebrate Victory over Cultural Funding

Thu 17th Jan 2008

Local Liberal Democrats are celebrating a significant victory after government ministers agreed to their proposals on Lottery funding for the Olympics which could provide £400m extra for grassroots sporting and cultural organisations by 2012.

Cllr John Macklin Visits the Waltham Forest Track and Pool Facility (photography: Ben Wright)

NEWS IN BRIEF (12/12/07)

Thu 13th Dec 2007

• Liberal Democrat Shadow Children's Secretary David Laws has criticised the Government's 10 year Children's Plan for not containing a "word about child poverty and targeting educational deprivation". [EPolitix]

NEWS IN BRIEF (31/10/07)

Wed 31st Oct 2007

• Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Nick Clegg MP has called on the immigration figures to be made the responsibility of the Office of National Statistics, after the row between the government and the Conservatives over the number of foreign workers in the UK continued today. [BBC]

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT BILL TACKLES EXCESS PACKAGING

Fri 26th Oct 2007

A bill to tackle excess packaging has today been presented to Parliament by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson. Setting out the case for her Packaging (Reduction) Bill (a '10 minute rule' bill), Jo called for:

Local Lib Dems Launch Cultural Consultation

Mon 15th Oct 2007

Your local Liberal Democrats have announced the launch of a consultation into the running of cultural services in the borough.

Don Foster MP with Waltham Forest Lib Dem Consultation Paper

Gordon Brown has failed to deliver real change for Britain

Fri 5th Oct 2007

Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson Farid Ahmed launched an attack on Gordon Brown for failing to deliver real change for Britain in his first 100 days as Prime Minister. Farid Ahmed said:

Gordon Brown in mask

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