Sentences with phrase «democrat councillors»

Grassroots Campaigns: Coun Tim Pickstone, chief executive of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors

All the polling now points to a May defeat for the AV campaign and a slaughter of Liberal Democrat councillors.

Nick Clegg has said «it's never easy to see dedicated, hardworking Liberal Democrat councillors lose ground,» after his party lost two councils and more than 100 seats in English local elections.

Just as our members providing vital local services know the real cost of cuts will be paid by their communities, Liberal Democrat councillors charged with implementing cuts are waking up to the dangers.

The extent of the discomfort with the government's economic plans was laid bare even further when a group of Liberal Democrat councillors wrote a letter criticising the spending cuts programme in the strongest possible terms.

Sir, We welcome the discussion that has been opened following the letter (Feb 10) from the Liberal Democrat councillors regarding the Tory - Lib Dem Government's funding cuts to local authorities.

Labour activists fighting the Green Party in Brighton Pavilion will probably feel aggrieved, as will those Liberal Democrat councillors fighting for their party's future in Labour heartlands.

declared one party conference veteran, gesturing beyond the patchily furnished exhibition hall, where the stands of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors and the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum were attempting to coax delegates with their wares.

We need to persuade people every day between now and May the seventh that their lives will be better with Liberal Democrat councillors making a difference in their communities, Liberal Democrat MPs fighting their corner in Westminster and Liberal Democrat ministers serving them in government.

This reputation is well deserved, but it depends on active local parties and enthusiastic Liberal Democrat councillors who do the hard work for the party on the ground.

Similarly, the number of Liberal Democrat councillors has declined from 3,944 councillors in 2010 to 2,282 in 2014; meaning that whilst the party used to control 25 councils, they now control just 10.

In order to help Liberal Democrat Councillors decide who to support, candidates are invited to submit their answers to the questions below to...

[citation needed] The two sitting English Democrat councillors on Calderdale and Blackburn with Darwen councils retired, and the party did not nominate any candidates to contest the seats.

The new politics is catching - Derby City Council will have a Conservative administration propped up with the support of Liberal Democrat councillors.

Liberal Democrat councillors have hit out at the government's spending cuts plans, in a move widening the gap with the party's ministers yet again.

Responding to a series of written questions from a Liberal Democrat councillor, Billings said: «To speak about «a premeditated ambush» is not helpful and seems designed to heighten emotions in a quite gratuitous fashion.

A Liberal Democrat councillor has claimed he is being bullied by Labour councillors on Leicester city council.

Political Director: Martin Tod is a Liberal Democrat Councillor from Winchester, Hampshire.

We must ensure we get Labour and Liberal Democrats Councillors elected.

One - third of the council was up for election plus a by - election in the Queensgate ward following the death of Liberal Democrat councillor Bill Bennett (last elected in 2008).

[6] On election day itself Labour called for the resignation of a Liberal Democrat councillor in Danehouse ward, Arif Khan, after claiming his parents were registered for proxy votes despite living in Pakistan; however Khan denied doing anything wrong.

A seat was vacant before the 2010 election in Dudden Hill, after Liberal Democrat councillor David Clues resigned from the council less than 6 months before the election, after having moved to Brighton.

[2] However the only Liberal Democrat councillor, Peter Hall of Town Cente ward, defected to the Conservatives in June 2011.

A by - election was held in Purewell and Stanpit on 5 May 2005 after the death of Liberal Democrat councillor Wendy Lloyd.

Adonis has never even stood as a candidate for MP, let alone been elected - although he was a Liberal Democrat councillor in Oxford and was at one time a LD prospective parliamentary candidate.

«A Liberal Democrat councillor in Liverpool has defected to Labour because of his opposition to the coalition government's latest cuts.

With 13 % of the vote in 2005 and not a single Liberal Democrat councillor in the constituency since 1975, the Party of Clegg, Campbell and Kennedy has not been seen as a threat in Wallasey for a generation or more.

«Every Welsh Liberal Democrat councillor in Wales will make the positive case for electoral reform, and I call on all other parties in Wales to do the same.»

Since the previous election, Liberal Democrat councillor Ben Curran, and Lib Dem - turned - independent Frank Taylor had defected to Labour leaving both parties equal at 41 councillors each.

Since the previous election, Liberal Democrat councillor Frank Taylor had defected to an Independent leaving the Liberal Democrats with 44 councillors.

He has been a Liberal Democrat councillor in the inner city region of Lewisham in south east London and hopes to be the Party's candidate for London mayor.

Scottish Liberal Democrat councillor Susan Leslie hit out at the party leadership for failing to send anyone to the event.

The figures have been branded as «appallingly low» by Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Vye and led to an inquiry into social mobility within the county's grammar schools.

Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Vye said the statistics were «appallingly low» and the gap was still too wide.

Not exact matches

Yet it shows that even one in four Conservative councillors think power will shift from local government to the centre during this Parliament, and the only unity between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at local level is about reducing council staff numbers.

Major losses for the Liberal Democrats could see Ukip emerge with more councillors than the coalition partner.

Paula Keaveney is a member of the Liberal Democrats and has been an elected City Councillor and Leader of the Opposition in Liverpool.

The make - up of the 48 - seat Town Hall remains unchanged with Labour in control with 23 councillors, the Liberal Democrats with 16, the Greens seven and Independent Working Class Association two.

Across England, the Liberal Democrats retained control of two councils with a net gain of just 13 councillors.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

In material terms, since 2010, the Liberal Democrats have also lost hundreds of council seats, and they now have fewer than 3,000 councillors for the first time in their history.

[18] The English Democrats lost their remaining councillors in the 2015 local elections.

[70] Later that year, Markyate Parish councillor Simon Deacon defected from the British National Party, to the English Democrats, having been elected unopposed.

Specified Associated Organisations (SAOs) review and input policies, representing groups including: ethnic minorities (EMLD), [169] women (WLD), [170] the LGBT community (LGBT + Liberal Democrats), [171] youth and students (Young Liberals), engineers and scientists (ALDES), [172] parliamentary candidates (PCA)[173] and local councillors (ALDC).

Their performance stands in stark contrast with that of their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats, who lost roughly a third of their councillors.

Liberal Democrats think of that when you're out campaigning in the crucial coming weeks — in your wards, in your communities, in your regions for our hardworking councillors and our excellent team of MEPs.

The number of Councillors for each party after the election were Labour 33, Liberal Democrat 14 and Green 4.

However they failed to gain at Bilton, Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire where Liberal Democrats recovered the seat of a former party councillor who had become independent.

[1] The number of Councillors for each party after the election were Labour 28, Liberal Democrat 16 and Green 7.

The results of the survey of 580 councillors in England and Wales for BBC One's Sunday Politics programme came as Liberal Democrats gathered in Glasgow for the party's annual conference.