http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Lambeth Liberal Democrats en-GB Lambeth Liberal Democrats http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2008 Lambeth Liberal Democrats 2008-07-06T04:08+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000106/labours_housing_dereliction_derby.html As Lambeth's Housing crisis deepens, as waiting lists for decent housing get longer, as repairs are put on hold, Labour's heartless response is to board up perfectly good homes and leave them empty. Worse than this, they are actually deliberately trashing many of them to make them uninhabitable. 2008-06-19T13:16+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000104/labour_should_bottleit_more_often.html Amazingly, in this day and age, there is a severe shortage of bottles available for turning into new bottles - and it's hard to think of a greener way of recycling than that. 2008-06-18T08:17+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000105/labours_criminal_record.html Labour stands accused of failing residents in the fight against crime. 2008-06-17T10:16+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000102/steve_bradley_wins_vassall_for_the_lib_dems.html Steve Bradley has won the Vassall by-election held on Thursday 20 March 2008. He was elected with over 50% of the vote and with a 12% swing to the Liberal Democrats. 2008-03-21T12:46+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000101/comment_out_for_the_count.html Election counts are a bit like coronations but with rather less bling and several candidates with the throne in mind. Like the most secretive parts of coronations, the public are excluded from the mysterious inner sanctum of the temple, or Town Hall, election agents are ushered up to a top table or high altar on the word of the high priest (or Election Officer) and mysterious things are spoken well out of earshot of the rest of us who have had mere supporting roles thus far. 2008-03-21T12:32+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000100/former_lambeth_labour_mayor_backs_lib_dems.html Former Labour Councillor and recently a popular Mayor of Lambeth, Claudette Hewitt has left the Labour Party and joined the Liberal Democrats. She is backing candidate Steve Bradley for the Vassall by-election. 2008-03-11T18:07+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000099/homes_wrecked_under_loony_labour.html Loony Labour-run Lambeth council has wrecked two homes in Streatham because money is not available to do them up - while not far away they have more than £100,000 of public money to spend converting three flats into a single house worth an estimated £1m. 2008-03-04T12:47+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000096/lambeth_sets_highest_council_tax_increase_in_london.html Lambeth's Labour Council are to set the highest percentage increase in council tax in the whole of London, Liberal Democrats can reveal. 2008-02-27T17:27+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000098/comment_a_right_old_labour_housing_mess.html Lambeth tenants may have felt battered almost into submission by Labour's Great ALMO Vote Swindle, service standards everywhere in free-fall, and inflation-busting rent, parking and service charges, but every Housing Forum in the Borough has now rejected Labour's brutal plans in a move thought to be without precedent. 2008-02-23T16:07+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000097/lambeth_is_the_tops_for_violent_crime.html Lambeth's steady decline has brought with it another dubious honour - it now tops the list for violent crime and murder in London's Capital. 2008-02-22T17:18+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000095/stars_spinning_over_lambeth.html News of the latest Comprehensive Performance Assessment has left Lambeth in a spin after the Audit Commission awarded the third different rating in three years. But Lambeth Council's own survey has residents slating the council for poor services. 2008-02-07T10:10+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000094/lambeth_life__the_most_expensive_freebie_in_the_world.html Lambeth Council's new fortnightly publicity-sheet has been branded "the most expensive freebie in the world" after new figures reveal it costs local Council Tax Payers over £300,000. But the propaganda-sheet declares on its front page that it is "Delivered FREE every fortnight to 136,000 homes and businesses in Lambeth". 2008-01-22T11:18+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000092/labour_listening_you_must_be_joking.html Labour-run Lambeth says it likes to listen. Trouble is that after pretending it's listening it just goes ahead and does what it wants. Not very democratic is it? 2008-01-20T14:01+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000093/comment_sssh_top_secret.html Labour-run Lambeth Town Hall has been likened by opposition councillors to the Moscow Kremlin as party bosses get more and more paranoid about maintaining a dense shroud of secrecy around their affairs and closely manipulating news. 2008-01-15T16:02+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000091/lambeth_life_branded_lambeth_lies_over_brixton_rec_porkies.html Lambeth Council's relaunched publicity sheet "Lambeth Life" has been branded "Lambeth Lies" after it was caught telling porkies about the Brixton Recreation Centre. 2008-01-07T12:52+00:00