Cllr Barry Aspinell will table the following at the ordinary council meeting on 26 June 2019:
Now that the results have sunk in, we can see that Thursday 23rd May was another epoch making moment in British politics - with the Lib Dems, yet again, after the local election results at the beginning of May, teaching the other historically "major" parties a basic lesson in how to keep faith with voters. Whilst support for the Tories and Labour collapsed to an an all time low, with just of 23% of the vote between them (a share plummeting by a combined total of 39%), the Lib Dems gained 21% of the vote all by ourselves (our share of the vote rising by 13%). On the night that the Conservative party had its worst result since 1832, falling to fifth place overall, and not coming first in a single local authority area, the Lib Dems had our best ever EU election. We came second in the East of England, second in the South East region, second nationally, and, remarkably, topped the poll in London. At a time when the bitter divisions and increasing extremism of politics worries so many, we took, and maintained, a fi
Proudly introducing our new MEPs for the Eastern Region: