Hinckley & Bosworth Liberal Democrats

News that the government is to delay its fair funding review for local councils for another year until 2021/22 was met with anger at the recent Leicestershire County Council's full council meeeting.

Councillor Michael Mullaney, Leicestershire Lib Dem finance spokesman raised the issue at the meeting. Michael Mullaney said "At present Leicestershire gets one of the worst deals from this Tory government. As we are one of the worst funded local government areas this means local residents have to put up with a double whammy of service cuts and council tax rises.

Former Conservative MP for Loughborough and Charnwood and former Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell has joined the Lib Dems

Responding to the news Lib Dem Leicestershire County Councillor and parliamentary candidate for Bosworth Michael Mullaney said "This is brilliant news. I welcome Stephen Dorrell to the Liberal Democrat's. Stephen Dorrell is a leading and well respected former Leicestershire Conservative MP and cabinet minister.

The Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hinckley and Bosworth Councillor Michael Mullaney recently met with party leader Jo Swinson recently where he discussed with her issues affecting the local area.

Michael Mullaney said "It was great to meet with Jo Swinson and talk about the issues affecting people in Hinckley and Bosworth. Our area is amongst the worst funded in the country for police, schools and local health services. We desperately need a government who will put the interests of people in our area higher up the agenda.

Hinckley councillor and Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Bosworth Michael Mullaney spoke at national Liberal Democrat conference on the need for fair funding for local services. The speech can be viewed here from 53 minutes in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjlOnX7KEEE

Hinckley councillor and Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Bosworth Michael Mullaney spoke at the national Lib Dem conference about the need for fairer funding for areas like Hinckley and Bosworth who currently don't get their fair share of funding for health, education, police and other services.

Local Liberal Democrat Councillors have welcomed a pledge, by party leader Jo Swinson, to invest in vitally needed youth services and youth workers, to help tackle knife crime and provide positive places for young people to be.

Swinson made the commitment in her leader's speech at the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference in Bournemouth.

"I/we the undersigned are very concerned about the closure of Hinckley's X-ray facilities. We call upon the NHS to re-instate an X-ray facility in Hinckley with immediate effect."

Furthermore we call on the Conservative Government to make good on their empty promises and deliver the long-awaited improvements to our NHS that our town deserves."

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council has backed calls for more police to be put on local streets.

The X-ray facilities that had been carried out at Mount Road hospital were stopped for safety reasons, this means residents will now have to travel miles away to Coalville or Glenfield to get X-rays.

The motion proposed by Councillor David Bill and seconded by Councillor Ann Pendlebury was passed unanimously

Reacting to the news that Abingdon man Luke Evans has been selected as the Conservative candidate for Bosworth Lib Dem HBBC Leader Cllr Stuart Bray said:

"The Conservative Party simply takes our area for granted. The last MP was parachuted in from outside and achieved little for the area. Now they have picked a man from Abingdon who's stood and lost in Birmingham before ending up here. We deserve better than being second choice.