The annual Liberal Party Assembly will be held on the 2nd October 2021 at the Briar Hotel in Birmingham subject to any government Covid restrictions and will commence at midday.

It is intended to broadcast the event live via Zoom and a telephone dial-in, facilities permitting.

The meeting will discuss changes to the Liberal Party constitution and the adoption of a new party emblem but will also be open to the submission of motions for debate from the membership.

Copies of the amended constitution and proposed emblem designs will be available shortly and can be obtain prior to the meeting by e-mailing a member of the NEC.

Details of the Zoom meeting will be published prior to the event.

An open NEC meeting and Special Assembly will be held at midday on Sunday the 23rd May.

Please contact a member of the party NEC for details of this Zoom meeting.

Details of the motions to be debated are being uploaded to the Libera Party webiste.

Please check back for details.

Dear Editor
 
The behaviour of Derek Jackson, as the Liberal Party Candidate at the Glasgow Southside Election Count was totally disgusting and has resulted in his membership being immediately suspended, furthermore it is subject to an Emergency Meeting of the Liberal Party NEC this afternoon
 
We wish to make it clear the personal attack on Mr Yousaf was nothing less than revolting
 
Can we make robustly clear that The Liberal Party has supported the government vaccination programme ,which in accordance with Liberal Values It is a voluntary programme 
 
Cllr Steve Radford
President of The Liberal Party

THE LIBERAL PARTY
7TH MAY 2021
Emergency Liberal Party NEC Statement - Glagow Southside Candidate
 
The Liberal Party notes with considerable concern the behaviour of its former candidate, Derek Jackson, at the election count for the Glasgow Southside Scottish Parliament seat and does not in any way endorse his actions. Mr Jackson's membership has been suspended with immediate effect. 
  
The Liberal Party is sorry for any offence Mr Jackson may have caused to any members of the public or to other candidates. Mr Jackson, who has acted entirely independently in adopting certain symbols and gestures has massively misrepresented The Liberal Party and its core values. 
  
The Liberal Party vehemently and actively opposes any form anti-Semitism or racism or the use of any symbols which evoke or promotes any such sentiments. The Liberal Party stands for a society that is open, tolerant and equal for all individuals and communities, whatever their heritage, faith or gender.  
 
The Liberal Party NEC

I am writing this letter in response to the Reading Chronicle news item(22nd April) detailing the announcement that Reading Borough Council will now miss the deadline for signing off its financial accounts for a fifth time.

The announcement of a delay in the filing on the eve of local elections on the 6th May is now becoming an all too regular occurrence and one which should simply not keep happening.

This is not a record the Labour run council should be proud of not least when the estimated cost overruns are now more than £1 million of local council taxpayers hard earned monies.

As I have stated on previous occasions, filling the annual accounts on time shows that the council is being run in an efficient and transparent way.

In the meantime, I am grateful for the opportunity to be on the ballot in Norcot ward for the local elections in May, and equal please to see at least 5 independent candidates as well as other minority party candidates on the ballot.

This gives the electorate of Reading the opportunity to hold the council to account at the hustings and potential in the council chamber for their continued inability to manage the councils financial reporting.

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, thank you for giving Deek Jackson the Liberal Party candidate for Glasgow Southside the opportunity to submit a few words for sharing during your hustings meeting.
First to clarify, the Liberal Party is not connected in anyway, with the LibDems, we are the continuing Liberal Party made up of members who refused to join a merger with the SDP.

The preamble to the Liberal Party constitution states:

"The Liberal Party exists to build a Liberal Society in which every citizen shall possess liberty, property and security, and none shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. Its chief care is for the rights and opportunities of the individual and in all spheres it sets freedom first."
 
The Liberal Party policies are time tested, environmentally green, left of centre, putting people at the heart of policy making.

As Liberals we believe that people should have good quality education, health care and housing as a right!

Democracy is underpinned by our rights and freedoms, which are constantly under threat.

Deek Jackson supports Liberal Party policy and has chosen Glasgow Southside to bring focus to the appalling new law introduced by the SNP recently.    The new law makes it a criminal offence to speak your mind in your own home.

Deek commented

“I may joke or posture or speak provocatively in my home on many issues, which if denounced or surveilled by the state could now see me prosecuted for a hate crime”.

“Freedom of speech is freedom of thought and freedom of belief - the SNP and coalition partners are stripping the people of Scotland of a fundamental right”.

“All freedom loving people should oppose this dark turn in Scotland’s affairs”.

Liberal Party policies are available for public scrutiny on our website

A vote for Deek Jackson on May 6th is a vote for Freedom and Liberty.
 
Published by Paul Bradshaw 5 Dunster Road Southport PR8 3AG on behalf of
Deek Jackson 149 Wedderburn Crescent, Dunfermline Fife, KY11 4RY

Liberal Party Election notice

The Liberal Party is proud to announce its list of candidates in this May’s regional and local elections.

Party President and city councillor Steve Radford will be contesting the mayoral election in Liverpool and well as standing for re-election in the Tuebrook and Stoneycroft ward.

The Liberal Party is standing 28 candidates across 27 wards in Liverpool including a by-election in Croxteth.

Deek Jackson is standing for election in the Glasgow Southside constituency of the Scottish Parliament.

In the Sefton constituency Angela Preston will be contesting the Blundellsands ward.

Byron Hadley is contesting the Bourton-on-the-Water and Northleach seat in the Cotswold Division of Gloucester County Council.

In Cornwall Paul Holmes is seeking election in Four Lanes, Beacon & Troon and Paul Nicholson is contesting Ludgvan, Madron, Gulval & Heamoo within the unitary authority, whilst at a parish level 4 councillors have been re-elected with a further 5 gains all returned unopposed.

Within Lincolnshire County Council Charles Shaw is contesting the seat of Carholme and Jason Blackmore is contesting the seat of Washingborough having secured the parish seat on Bracebridge Heath Parish Council uncontested.

 John Edge is contesting the Hyde Godley Ward of the Tameside Borough Council.

 Finally, Stephen Graham is contesting the Norcot Ward of Reading Borough Council.

"The Liberal Party stands strongly against the Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 and asks all MPs to oppose it.
 
This bill is an attack on the British traditions of the rights to speech and assembly, Our Human rights and our civil liberties."

Having been brought up on Rugby and having a profound disinterest in football I think I could be considered a more than objective member of the Planning Committee hearing the case by Everton to move to and develop the Bramley Moore dock site.

In the presentation, I was impressed that Everton was committing to invest in public transport at the Sandhills Station.
The call in by Historic England. I fear is totally the wrong approach. Most Northern cities are littered with listed buildings which are supposedly “protected”.

In reality, they are mothballed and allowed to deteriorate over time to the point of no return. The best way to actually preserve and open up Heritage sites is to adopt them to become commercially viable sites whilst at the same time enhancing the heritage features into a community use.

At Bramley Moore Dock the historic railway lines are to be kept and the hydraulic tower to be saved and developed as a visitor facility.

I hope the Secretary of State will take note this proposal was supported by all parties, Labour Liberals and Lib Dems, on the Planning Committee in dare I say a rare case of unanimity.

I would urge Historic England to actually take a more realistic approach to supporting historic sites being developed for a long term future and being opened up to the public rather than left to deterioration behind closed walls.

Cllr Steve Radford
Leader Liberal Party Group

Liberal Party President & Cllr Steve Radford will be standing for Mayor of Liverpool.

Cllr Radford has a proven track record with nearly 40 years dedicated service to the residents of Liverpool, 30 years experience as a personnel manager & 10 years as a manager of a dynamic community charity.