Jan 03
Ian Stuart is one of our local Liberal Democrat members. He recently visited Parliament to make the case for electoral reform to Sir Oliver Heald, our MP for North East Hertfordshire, and he’s written the following report for us: It was a very interesting day organised by the group Make Votes Matter, who brought together …
May 19
With the General Election now approaching, let us introduce Nicky Shepard, the LibDem candidate for this constituency. Nicky has a strong background as a community campaigner, fighting for the rights of the people of Abbey in Cambridge. In the 2017 County Council elections, she ran the most successful Liberal Democrat campaign in Abbey Division in its …
Jan 04
Edwinstree Middle School in Buntingford, Hertfordshire will be hosting BBC Any Questions on Friday the 24th of February 2017, with doors opening at 6.30pm. Panellists are yet to be confirmed. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgvj for more information. Local LibDem parties will be doing their best to ensure that our point of view is represented in the audience! In any …
Jun 27
Anyone reading this will doubtless know the result of lst week’s referendum on EU membership, which the LibDems can only regard as a terrible mistake by the British public. It appears to have been a self-destructive protest vote with huge consequences unexpected by many of the people who voted to leave. One very small silver …
Jun 06
The Stronger In campaign will be holding a public meeting about the EU referendum on the evening of Tuesday 21 June. The meeting will take place in the Heritage Hall of Royston Town Hall, from 19:30-21:30. Sir Oliver Heald MP is the keynote speaker, and the organisers have also invited representatives of other groups to …
Apr 13
The Royston Liberal Democrats are happy to say that our parliamentary candidate for the upcoming general election is one of us. Joe Jordan, a scientist and software engineer who lives in Royston, has been appointed the candidate to fight the Tories for the North East Hertfordshire constituency. Joe said: I am proud to be standing for parliament …
Aug 31
This week, on Wednesday 3 September, the national party will launch our pre-manifesto, which will form the backbone of the party’s general election platform. The party’s focus will be a ‘manifesto for the next generation’ with a host of policies aimed at improving the life chances of children and young people. Read Nick Clegg’s foreword …
May 26
Sadly, on Sunday night, the East of England lost one of its strongest advocates and keenest supporters when Andrew Duff was not re-elected as our MEP. The following is Andrew’s press statement on the subject: This was the most polarised of the seven campaigns in which I have stood as a candidate for the European …
Sign our petition calling for county council to provide free school meals
Steve Jarvis
You can sign out petition calling for Herts County Council to provide free school meals if the government will not at www.hertslibdems.org.uk/FreeSchoolMeals
Back the national campaign for government funded free meals in holiday periods. www.libdems.org.uk/meals
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It is an absolute travesty for children to go hungry, on any day of the year. Back our campaign.COUNTY MUST STEP IN WITH FREE SCHOOL MEALS FOR THOSE THAT NEED THEM
Comment from the Leader of Lib Dem group on Herts County County, Stephen Giles-Medhurst.
"On Tuesday at a Full County Council meeting the Conservatives refused to back a motion from the Lib Dems calling the government to support the call from Marcus Rashford to provide free school meals to those in receipt during school holidays until next Easter.
As you know later in the week the government equally voted this down for England (Wales and Scotland are providing it!). Now some education authorities, like Essex, Staffordshire, even Kensington and Chelsea are stepping in to do just that. The Lib Dem county education spokesperson Mark Watkin sent an open letter (email!) to the Tory education boss demanding that Herts County Council do the same. We have yet to hear back. But we cannot wait, so this afternoon as Leader of the opposition on the county council, along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I have formally requisitioned a special county council meeting to agree that the county council step up,as they did in the summer, and put in place a system to provide much needed food for children in need. With millions spent on "Eat out to help out" where is the support for those children who could go hungry. The county council has millions in reserves and whilst it may have missed the boat for half term there are other school holidays and it must not be a Christmas scourge. I know Watford Council is already working with various local businesses and charities to help where it can but the county council is the education authority and has the resources and information to reach every child in need."
We hope the government will rethink this dreadful refusal to help and that our North Herts MP who voted down giving children in need support thinks again. Why not email him with your views?
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We have just heard that Morrisons plan to close their Royston store on 25th October 2020. We are saddened by this decision, which we as County, District and Town Councillors, and as local campaigners, have done everything in our power to prevent. We believe this closure could adversely affect the whole town centre and in particular those people less able to travel for their shopping. Our thoughts now are with the current employees, who we hope will find new jobs quickly in the local area.
