Gordon Birtwistle & Burnley Liberal Democrats

Archive for January, 2010

Burnley and other similar industrial towns have been neglected and abandoned by London Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said on a visit to Burnley to support local campaigner Gordon Birtwistle.

Nick was launching a new set of policies to boost Britain’s industrial heartlands and highlighted the work Gordon Birtwistle and Lib Dem run Burnley Council have done to bring jobs and prosperity to the town.

Lib Dem plans would include moving top Civil Servants with responsibility for manufacturing and wider industrial policies to Northern towns like Burnley so they could oversee investment programmes to support local jobs.

“he seemed like a really nice guy. I have always been a Labour man, but his comments were really good and I would say the Lib Dems have a good chance around here.”
A drinker in the General Scarlett Pub on Accrington road after Nick’s visit

Nick said Gordon’s record of campaignig for Burnley meant he would make a superb MP for local people.  “Gordon’s the sort of campaigner people really trust.  They know he’ll stand up for Burnley”.

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When people were struggling with ungritted roads, local Lib Dems took action to help.
Councillors Charlie Briggs and Gordon Birtwistle along with Neil Mottershead from Gannow arranged for a supply of grit and were out gritting key areas that had been neglected.

The change of control from Labour to Conservative hasn’t made much difference when it comes to getting our roads and pavements gritted properly in a winter freeze!

Last year we had a Labour run County Council and they didn’t grit the roads properly and refused to refill some grit bins. Now we have a Conservative Council, and again there was chaos as some roads weren’t gritted properly and they refused to refill grit bins.

“We could have avoided this” said Gordon Birtwistle. “Last year Lib Dem County Councillors proposed a £690,000 boost for winter gritting but Labour and Conservative Councillors teamed up to vote that plan down.”
“Conservative Councillors gambled that we wouldn’t have a severe winter. They lost and we are all paying the price.”

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Thanks to Lynne Featherstone MP, the Lib Dems Youth Spokesperson, for letting us have details of this.

Nick Clegg will be holding an online forum for young people on Wednesday 20 January from 4:30 p.m. He will answer questions on issues facing young people and you can join in the forum.

Lynne’s website gives full details and tells you how to take part through either twitter or MP’s Parliament and Online Diary which tells you how to take part either through twitter or the forum at the UK Youth Parliament.

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Last year we had a Labour run County Council and they didn’t grit the roads properly and refused to refill some grit bins.
Now we have a Conservative Council, and again there was chaos as some roads weren’t gritted properly and they refused to refill grit bins.
“We could have avoided this” said Cllr Charlie Briggs, the leader of the Lib Dems on the County Council.  “Last year Lib Dem County Councillors proposed a £690,000 boost for winter gritting but Labour and Conservative Councillors teamed up to vote that plan down.”
“Conservative Councillors gambled that we wouldn’t have a severe winter.  They lost and we are all paying the price.”

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