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LIB DEMS WORK FOR WEYBRIDGE ALL YEAR ROUND

Heathrow Third Runway Victory

March 2010 - A High Court judge has ordered the Government to review its decision to build a third Heathrow runway.

A coalition of local councils, residents, Lib Dems and environmental groups have argued that the expansion of Europe's busiest airport was at odds with the UK's environmental targets under the 2008 Climate Change Act. The Government had argued that it attached proper environmental conditions to the project when it decided to support it.

In a long-awaited ruling on 26 March 2010, Lord Justice Carnwath ruled that the Government's argument was "untenable".

Liberal Democrat MP Susan Kramer (Richmond Park), who has led the Lib Dem campaign against Heathrow expansion, was reported in The Times as saying: "This is a declaration of victory, the final nail in the coffin for the Government’s attempts to steamroll over local and national opposition to its disastrous third runway plans."

She added: "The expansion of Heathrow would be a catastrophe for our climate and for the thousands of Londoners who would be forced to live with the huge disruption it will cause. "There is no way the Government can tear up what it has already done and start again – because we know the real climate change figures prove that there is no economic case for expansion at all. Labour's tough talk on climate change is just hot air."

Campaigns

Lib Dems are well known for getting things done by campaigning

This page lists local and national campaigns

Local Weybridge & Oatlands causes which we support include

- improving safety at the junction of Grotto Road & Thames Street

- 'CRISIS - Cross the Road in Safety' - Cleves School crossing

Victory against Heathrow expansion - environmental damage averted. In close coalition with environmental groups, residents and local councils, Liberal Democrat MP Susan Kramer has led the Lib Dem campaign against the third runway at HeathrowExternal link. In a long-awaited High Court ruling on 26 March 2010, Lord Justice Carnwath ruled that the Government's argument was "untenable" - see the story in right panel ->

Local Campaigns

Campaign for a safer junction - Grotto Road and Thames Street junction parking

Grotto Road and Thames Street junction

Safety at this junction has been a worry for years. Local people and councillors have been pressing strongly for action from Surrey - including a petition by local residents, and requests to the local committee.  Results are disappointing so far, but we will not give up!

CRISIS - Cross the Road In Safety campaign for a safe crossing outside Cleves School Oatlands

CRISIS (Cross the Road in Safety) - campaign success

Energetic campaigning for a safe crossing outside Cleves School by parents and local residents, with strong support from Weybridge Liberal Democrats, gained over 1300 local signatures, and has won a major first step in improving safety.

Save our Surrey Community Hospitals (SOS CH): creeping closures of local community hospital beds across Surrey have sparked a campaign by concerned residents, which local Lib Dems strongly support. This looks worryingly like the start of a covert reduction of community hospital facilities. We want Surrey NHS to come clean on their plans.

Local Liberal Democrat MPs Edward Davey and Susan Kramer are fighting plans to close A&E and Maternity services. Senior NHS staff have blown the whistle on Labour proposals to close Accident and Emergency services and Maternity services at Kingston Hospital. Sign the petition to save A&E and Maternity servicesExternal link

Lib Dem National Campaigns

Lib Dems are proposing the Freedom Bill: freedom.libdems.org.ukExternal Link. Here's a selection of the measures incorporated in our first draft: Scrap ID cards for everyone; Restore the right to protest in Parliament Square; Scrap the ContactPoint database of all children in Britain; Remove innocent people from the DNA database; Reduce the maximum period of pre-charge detention to 14 days.

An action plan to save Britain's democracy: Expenses reform; House of Lords reform; Party funding reform; Fixed-term Parliaments; Referendum on PR; Commons reform to reduce executive power.  Almost all the reforms needed can be achieved in the next 100 days, and we should not let the process go on longer than this. This is possible because most of the necessary legislation is already before Parliament - it is just currently being blocked by establishment figures.

Liberal Democrats launch a campaign against airbrushing in advertisingExternal link. The Liberal Democrat airbrushing campaign is backed by the National Centre for Eating Disorders, Girlguiding UK and leading academics. It encourages people to report adverts featuring heavily airbrushed images of women to advertising watchdogs.

Lib Dems fight to protect our green spacesExternal link. The Government’s current planning policies treat your back garden as a “brownfield site” - like an old industrial site - which means they are vulnerable to infill development. You can help tell the Government that you want your back garden protected, by supporting the Lib Dem Hands off our Back Gardens petitionExternal link.