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) 2010 Lambeth Liberal Democrats 2010-09-03T18:55+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000232/lambeth_living_is_tops_for_temps.html If you are a Lambeth Council tenant waiting for a minor, or even essential repair, you might just stand a better chance of getting disaster relief from the United Nations because little will have come your way this twelve months past. 2010-07-23T16:11+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000231/ice_age_retreat.html Geologists tell us that the last great Ice Age was 20,000 years ago but for many Streatham residents the wrangling over when a new Ice Arena will be built there seems to be taking just about as long. 2010-07-23T15:17+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000230/new_coop_wallpaper_design_revealed.html Lambeth Labour's Leader, Cllr Steve Reed, has clearly been devoting as much of his time to the absurd notion of Lambeth operating as a Cooperative Council as he has to boosting the over-inflated employment opportunities for his Group's back room political staff. 2010-07-23T14:12+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000229/schools_snub_labours_academy_ban.html No sooner had Labour's new Education supremo Cllr Pete Robbins issued a blood-curdling threat to Lambeth Schools not to apply for the Government's recently announced Academy Plans than an orderly queue quickly developed of those wishing to opt out of local authority control. 2010-07-23T10:55+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000228/comment_labours_curious_hiring_and_firing_mentality.html One thing's certain - there's something very peculiar about the thinking processes down at Planet Lambeth. 2010-07-23T09:53+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000227/labour_lambeth_sucks_lifeblood_from_lambeth_living.html As a creature Lambeth Living was always slightly more grotesque than Dr Frankenstein's Monster. It was the hurried invention of some half-crazed individual that has since consumed vast sums of public money on itself that could have been much better spent restoring people's derelict homes and now seems totally out of the control of its Labour masters. 2010-06-24T11:52+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000219/ice_land.html Given the huge PR puff put out before the May elections from Labour saying that they'd saved the doomed Streatham Ice Rink at the last minute, things have gone remarkably quiet down at the Brixton Kremlin about this seemingly amazing eleventh hour deal. 2010-06-15T10:59+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000220/garden_grabbers_outlawed.html A number of Lambeth residents will be delighted to learn that the new Coalition Government has announced a curb on property developers and the practice known as garden grabbing. 2010-06-14T16:17+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000217/will_the_last_labour_councillor_kindly_put_out_the_light.html A character in Shakespeare's great tragedy Hamlet laments that "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" and, curiously, there seems to be something equally amiss about Lambeth's New Labour regime at the present time. 2010-06-08T16:04+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000216/comment_no_academy_awards_for_lambeth.html Lambeth Labour's new man in charge of Education, Cllr Pete Robbins, has barely got behind his desk and already he's firing-off missives that Lambeth Schools should not co-operate with the new Government if they offer any Lambeth schools Academy status. 2010-06-05T18:09+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000215/the_sad_old_ruins_of_labour_lambeth.html Word reaches us that Brixton's one and only multi-story car park in Pope's Road just behind the Brixton Wreck (sorry Rec) is now about to be visited by the wrecking ball as it has just been declared unsafe. 2010-06-02T13:08+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000214/coop_without_the_divvi.html So Lambeth Labour has launched its much-hyped Co-Operative Council. Being Lambeth Labour it's all laid out in a glossy tome running to over 50 pages but written in such impenetrable bureaucracy-speak that we doubt it will make the best seller's list. 2010-05-26T12:25+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000213/council_elections_2010.html The people have spoken, the dust has finally settled, and Lambeth recycling will get a welcome boost next week from all the political leaflets being stuffed into orange sacks. 2010-05-08T16:46+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000212/labour_ducks_questions_about_future_of_lambeth_parks.html Lambeth Labour, alone of the three major political parties fighting to run the Council after May 6th, has failed to reply to questions put by the Lambeth Parks and Green Spaces Forum. 2010-05-04T19:42+01:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000211/cleaning_up_labours_mess__again.html There's a stark choice ahead for voters this Thursday, says Lambeth Lib Dem Leader Ashley Lumsden. Back in 2002 Labour left Lambeth bankrupt and so badly run that even the Labour Government had to step in to save it from total collapse. 2010-05-04T12:24+01:00