Lib Dem conference reps needed: voting system for the European Parliament
Updated: 2012-06-30 18:56:24
Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform want to submit the following motion to the party's autumn Federal Conference. If you are a voting conference rep and would like to help make sure the motion gets enough signatures, please email the LDER Chair Crispin Allard with your name, local party and membership number. Thanks. Motion text: 2014 Elections to the European Parliament Conference notes: that all EU member states are required to use a proportional system for elections to the European Parliament that British elections to the European Parliament have been held using closed party lists since 1999 that the Liberal Democrats ...
Writing in the Financial Times this week, Nick Clegg warned: In the debate on banking union we back greater co-operation on various aspects of an integrated financial system: common rules on the restructuring of failed banks, shared principles on how to protect depositors, high minimum standards for the capital EU banks should hold and a strong European Banking Authority. As for the second caricature, the idea that the UK is all about City opt-outs and financial deregulation, that has been out of date since this government took office. In reality, the UK has been arguing for tightening, not loosening regulation, ...
ACTION PACKED PROGRAMME AT TRING CARNIVAL TODAY Tring Carnival procession down High Street to Pound Meadow today starting at Christchurch Road at 2 pm. Complete with a Steam Engine & Mayor! But you don't have to wait for the Procession – get started early with Revelation Majorettes at 12.30 pm in Pound Meadow. 55 stalls plus rides AND Ferret Racing! Six places to eat from noon onwards. Prefer a liquid lunch? No problem – visit the Tring Brewery Beer Festival in the Marquee! Music in the Marquee from 7.30 pm and Jazz on Sunday afternoon from 12 noon.
Guide price: £80 to £150. But, don't worry, the forthcoming auction of the late deejay's effects will helpfully provide accompanying photos of the great man wearing each vest before you part with your hard-earned cash. At the other end of the scale there's a Rolls-Royce Corniche at £60,000 to £90,000. Hopefully it will find a good home with someone old enough to appreciate the numbers on the personalised numberplate – "JS 247". It will have to be someone well over forty with a nostlagic soft spot for the days when Radio One used to jostle with Radio Tirana to be ...