Kettering & Wellingborough Liberal Democrats

Over 20 million working people will be better off next year after Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government delivered the biggest ever increase in the income tax personal allowance in the Budget.

The massive £3.5bn tax cut for working people delivers:

• The biggest ever single uplift in the tax threshold
• A personal allowance of £9,205 in April 2013
• 21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
• Brings the total tax cut for basic rate tax payers to £550
• Brings the total number of people lifted out of tax to 2 million.

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg used his speech to the Party's Spring conference in NewcastleGateshead to call for the forthcoming budget to be a "budget for fairness" and pledged that it would help working familes.

The Deputy Prime Minister pledged that by 2015 Britain would have seen an end to control orders, the first gay marriages and the first elections to the House of Lords.

Fairer taxes, promoting green jobs, protecting your civil liberties - these are just some of the achievements of the Liberal Democrats in government.

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In his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference, Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has outlined his goals for the Government and the country over the coming years. He reiterated his commitment to liberal values on the environment and human rights and his determination to ensure a fair chance for every child, saying "every child can do good things, great things, if only we give them the opportunities they deserve."

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The Leader of the Official Opposition at the County Council, Liberal Democrat Cllr Brendan Glynane, has today launched an attack on the Conservatives for cancelling the meeting of Full Council due to take place on 16th December. The meeting was cancelled only hours after the Liberal Democrats had submitted a motion which gave all 73 county councillors the opportunity to debate the future of the County's Sure Start Centres.

Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition, and Police Authority Member, Cllr Brendan Glynane has called on the Conservative administration to come clean on cuts to the budget for PCSOs. Cllr Glynane put a question to the Conservative Leader of the Council at a recent meeting, but the Conservatives refused to give a straight answer.

The Conservatives have abandoned a major deal to dispose of the County's waste, 3 and a half years into the making.

Cllr Brendan Glynane, Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition said "The Conservatives appear to have no plan B to the PFI scheme they put forward. The cost of sending waste to landfill is set to soar from its present cost of £48 per tonne up to £80 per tonne by 2018. Without a serious plan in place the cost will either have to be met by cuts to frontline services or hikes to taxes for hard pressed local taxpayers."

2010 Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Kettering Chris Nelson has joined local colleagues and 104 Lib Dem parliamentary candidates across the country in opposing plans to raise university tuition fees.

The petition has the signatures of 104 Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates who did not win seats in the recent General Election. The petition's signatories also include Andrew Simpson, who was the Liberal Democrat candidate for Northampton North at the last election.

Cllr Brendan Glynane, Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition on Northamptonshire County Council has attacked the Conservative administration for refusing to take responsibility for their financial mess at County Hall. In a letter to the local press, Cllr Glynane said:

"The news that Northamptonshire County Council needs to find savings of £136 million over the next four years should surprise no-one. The truth is that Northamptonshire's Conservatives have been wasting taxpayers money for years and while in times of plenty they could get away with it, now the money has run out. The total mess they made trying to sell off school sites, the £22m on consultants in 2009/10 alone, the £32m Carillion contract blunder, and the £629m debt from borrowing have made the cuts far more savage than necessary.