East Suffolk Liberal Democrats

Lib Dems Brighton Conference - Demand Better

Saturday 15th to Tuesday 18th September 2018 - Brighton Centre

The Agenda and programme for the Party's Autumn Conference has been published and over the coming days and weeks we will review some of the Agenda for our readers.

Members can still pre-register for this Conference at www.libdems.org.uk/conference

Manufacturers must scrap the "smorgasbord" of plastics which are used in packaging for key foods so that councils can reduce waste sent to landfill and increase recycling, Lib Dems are warning.

Analysis from the Local Government Association suggests that only a third of plastic used by households is able to be recycled. It found 525,000 tonnes of plastic pots, tubs and trays are used by households a year but just 169,145 tonnes of this waste is able to be recycled.

Lib Dems would put an extra £300m into policing in the UK

Suffolk Police would be set to gain £2,540.00 per year under the Lib Dems

Liberal Democrats have announced they would boost investment in police forces by £300m a year. This is in stark contrast to the Conservatives who have overseen devastating cuts to community policing. Theresa May as Home Secretary and now Prime Minister has cut policing budgets by over £2bn, eroding the very fabric of community policing.

An increase in demand for emergency food for children drove increased foodbank need during the summer holidays last year.

New data published by anti-poverty charity The Trussell Trust shows today.

Last year the number of supplies given to adults decreased slightly in the summer months, whereas the level of support needed for children was markedly higher: during July and August 2017, The Trussell Trust's network of over 420 foodbanks provided over 204,525 three day emergency supplies, 74,011 of which went to children. In comparison, during May and June 2017 70,510 supplies went to children.*

The slowdown in life expectancy for the average person in Britain is worse than anything seen since the early 1890s, and no other country in Europe has experienced as rapid a slowdown as the UK - and no one really knows why...

Article and research by Danny Dorling, University of Oxford and Lucinda Hiam, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for the Conversation Trust UK Ltd and reported in the Independent on 15th MARCH stated that: