"Winning the tactical vote" training with Michael Mullaney
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If we are going to win extra seats in May, whilst the Party is still only polling 8-10% nationally, it will be done by convincing people in your area that you have a chance of winning locally whatever the national polls say. A key part of that is winning the tactical vote - if you have target council seats in May winning the tactical vote will be a crucial part of your campaign.
Spring Regional Conference & Training Event
Saturday 23rd February 2019
Doors open at 9:30am, Conference runs from 10:00am - 4:00pm
Sir Francis Hill Community Primary School, Bristol Dr, Lincoln LN6 7UE
Join us in the wonderful county of Lincolnshire for our Spring Regional Conference
After your feedback this event will have more of a training focus to
give you the support you have requested ahead of the May Elections
Every May, there are local elections in the UK, to elect the councillors that local after our local communities.
In the Liberal Democrats, we're committed to making sure this year's local elections produce the biggest gains ever, returning hard-working Liberal Democrat councillors to town halls right across England.
It is less than a month now to Spring Conference in York. I'm sure many of you will by now have booked your trains and your accommodation to join us for all the interest that two days packed full of motions, training, fringes and meeting up with others from across the country. If you haven't booked yet, you can do so here: libdems.org.uk/spring-conference
Storytelling is the oldest way of passing along information, in which facts can be shared but we also know it is also one of the most powerful for sharing our messages.
That's why we want yours.
We want to share your story to help us win the fight for an Exit from Brexit.
Tonight in Parliament, the Conservatives kicked the can down the road yet again.
As the Brexit deadline looms ever larger, Parliament is still gridlocked - and there's no sign of anything changing soon.
For two years, Theresa May's Conservatives have made an absolute mess of Brexit - and Corbyn's Labour have been right there with them - letting them off the hook.
Only the Liberal Democrats are fighting, day in and day out, to stop this catastrophe.
We still have time to stop Brexit - and we need to make our campaign even stronger in the next few weeks.
Together, we've defeated the Government in Parliament 24 times; we've built public support for a People's Vote and we've led the campaign against Brexit on doorsteps across Britain.
We are making a difference - and it's still all to play for. Will you donate to help us keep fighting to stop Brexit?
In Hull last May we confounded expectations and swelled our councillor numbers on the Guildhall benches from 17 to 24 - winning seats off Labour heavy-weights right across our City.
Forlorn looking faces of Labour councillors and candidates stood looking shell-shocked around the count tables as ballot papers tipped out of the boxes - their Council majority has been slashed to just five. They could not comprehend what had happened.
Westminster is in a strange state of lassitude. We know there is a massive Brexit storm ahead; but nothing much is happening. Theresa May's statement to the Commons yesterday was largely an exercise in repetition, including the ludicrous assertion that we might 'accidentally' leave the European Union without a deal.
Last week a Private Members' Bill aimed at protecting young girls from female genital mutilation was brought to the Commons.
The bill would clear up a loophole in the law. Currently, female genital mutilation doesn't count as one of the conditions for a temporary care order to be issued. This means it's harder to get at-risk girls away from families looking to mutilate their own children.
Two bills that the Liberal Democrats have been fighting on, to improve the lives of those living in Britain.
Upskirting
Back in June last year, my Private Members' Bill making upskirting a specific criminal offence was kicked out of Parliament by a Tory dinosaur - for no good reason. But we didn't give up.
Despite telling Labour conference he would pursue a People's Vote if he could not secure a General Election, Jeremy Corbyn is now offering support for Theresa May's Brexit.
His support is coming at the cost of people's jobs, our NHS and the environment - he's just missing in action. We've had enough.
I write in response to a letter from Cllr Gordon Brown in last week's Rutland Mercury. Cllr Brown is correct when he says the site at St George's Barracks needs to be included within the Local Plan, and that a planning application will have to be made and planning granted before development can take place. He is also correct that the site, because it has been developed by the MoD in the past, is a brownfield site and therefore there is not the barrier to new development that there would be on a greenfield site. However he is being disingenuous to suggest that the bid for Homes Infrastructure Fund (HIF) money is not "tantamount to waving through a development" at St George's.
When the Liberal Democrats were in Government, I had the privilege of being Minister of State for Care and Support at the Department of Health. As Health Minister I worked to ensure that mental health was treated with the same priority as physical health, introducing the first ever access and waiting time standards for mental health. We also secured more money for children and young people's mental health services.
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