Strood HSBC closure, bad for businesses, bad for residents' - say local Lib Dems
*image by alan wells
*image by alan wells
Medway Liberal Democrats are pleasantly surprised to see that Medway council has been awarded funding to study how they can clean up its incredibility polluted air. We have been campaigning against air pollution for a long time and we recently launched our 'Clean Air For Medway' on the 17th June 2021. So we are glad that our campaigning has caused the Conservative administration to finally wake up to this issue, those sadly after allowing parts of Medway to have some of the worse air pollution in Kent.
*image - by alan wells
image/graphic by Stuart Bourne
The Liberal Democrats have accused the Conservatives of leaving pensioners in Rochester and Strood with a "hole in their pocket" after breaking a manifesto promise to protect the state pension. In the wake of inflation hitting a thirty year high of 5.5% in January, a typical pensioner in Rochester and Strood is set to see their income fall by £171.60 this year in real terms. This is a total loss of income of £3,080,89 between 17,968 pensioners in Rochester and Strood due to the Conservative government's decision to break a key manifesto promise and scrap the triple lock on pensions.