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Welcome to the Birkdale Lib Dem web site!
Please sign our petition to TO RETAIN A TEMPORARY TOWN CENTRE LIBRARY AT SOUTHPORT MARKET HALL (link on left)
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Tue 2nd Feb 2010
Vince Cable, Treasury Spokesman and Deputy Leader of the Liberal
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Fri 13th Nov 2009
• Southport's town centre Library will have to shut for nearly 3 years from early 2010 while much-needed refurbishment work is undertaken on the Arts Centre and Library complex (the £15 million "Southport Cultural Centre" project).
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Thu 12th Nov 2009
Sefton Council's ruling Cabinet has thrown out throw a proposal to relocate Southport's town centre library to the currently vacant space at the rear of Southport Market Hall during the 3 years of work on the Arts Centre and Library buildings.
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Tue 10th Nov 2009
Southport's Liberal Democrat councillors, who hold two-thirds of Southport's 21 council seats, have expressed their unanimous support for the idea of temporarily relocating the town's library into the rear of Southport Market Hall.
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Thu 29th Oct 2009
Michael Braham has kindly given us his permission to put his history of Southport Liberals on our website. The book was first published in 1985 and has been hard to get hold of for some years. You can now access the online version of the book via the button on the left.
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Wed 7th Oct 2009
Responding to the news that Crosby Labour MP Claire Curtis-Thomas is standing down at the next election, the prospective Liberal Democrat MP for Sefton Central Richard Clein said:
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Fri 2nd Oct 2009
Councillor Simon Shaw has condemned a proposal from Sefton Council's Standards Committee which could prevent councillors from telling the public how they voted on controversial issues.
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Archive of earlier news stories.
 News Story Feed (v1.0).
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| Southport General Election Result |
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Turnout: 41201 (69%)
46.3%
Liberal Democrat: 19093 (+2.5%)
37%
Conservative: 15255 (+0.5%)
12.8%
Labour: 5277 (−3.8%)
View the results in detail.
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| Quotes of the Week |
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"I hate to say it, but only one party leader seems to have grasped that, if you construct a system where unskilled people are worse off by taking a job than by staying on welfare, they remain trapped in poverty - and that is Nick Clegg. "
Lord Norman Tebbit
Daily Telegraph online - 13 Jan
"It's unbelievable that the Tories are still planning to cut taxes for a handful of millionaires when the majority of people across the country are feeling the squeeze. We need fair tax cuts that put money back in the pockets of ordinary people. The Tory sums simply do not stack up. It is irresponsible and highly misleading for George Osborne to continue to pretend that they do. "
Vince Cable MP
Responding to Conservative Spending Plans - 4 Jan
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