Nottingham Liberal Democrats

Business Secretary Vince Cable has called for companies to end the secrecy surrounding remuneration consultants

After the commitment in the Queens Speech to end the link between casino and high street banking, and the after the biggest shareholder revolt against excessive executive pay deals in living memory instigated by the Business Secretary's consultation programme, Vince Cable is now demanding more transparency from companies over the use of secretive remuneration consultants who are blamed for encouraging fat-cat pay.

Continuing to focus on race and ethnicity is fanning the flames of far right recruitment and hatred while the real underlying issues are about class, weakness, vulnerability and a desperate void in community leadership.

Media reporting of the Rochdale "sex grooming trial" and the brutal exploitation of vulnerable young teenage girls raises many troubling questions, and has so far concentrated largely on the fact that the men were of Pakistani background while all 47 victims, were from white and working class backgrounds.

The Nottingham City Liberal Democrats are proud to be hosting an Evening with the Rt Hon Edward Davey, MP for Kingston & Surbiton and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

This will be an evening dinner in the Nottingham area on Friday 27th July 2012.

Further details about the event will be available as soon as we have them.

Nottingham City Liberal Democrats Event

"A Dinner with the Rt Hon. Vince Cable MP"

Thursday 31st May 2012 at 6.30 pm

The Nottingham City Liberal Democrats are proud to be welcoming to the region the Rt. Hon. Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and MP for Twickenham.

We are holding a dinner event at The Atrium, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1QZ

Voters in Nottingham are beginning to wake up to the realisation that they have just managed to avoid removing powers from democratically elected local councillors in order to put them somewhat precariously into the hands of a single person in the form of an American style elected mayor. They have, thank goodness, decided in favour of the sensible option.

The Nottingham Liberal Democrats would like to express their appreciation to our friends in the East Midlands for attending the meeting with the Baroness of Crosby, Shirley Williams, today.

To see so many of our colleagues from across the region was a pleasure. We hope you all enjoyed the talk and question and answer session afterwards. The Baroness commented to us that it was wonderful to see so many active people from across the region.

Liberal Democrats in Derby are celebrating after winning more seats and more votes in this year's local elections than they did in 2011.

Derby Lib Dems won 3 wards compared to two last year. They missed out on winning a 4th seat in Arboretum ward by just 14 votes.

Leader of Derby Liberal Democrat councillors Hilary Jones said "These results show the Liberal Democrats are still a major force in Derby politics.

"Morale amongst Lib Dem members was much higher this year and our campaigners worked hard for every vote."

Amongst the positive results for the Lib Dems this time were; winning Mickleover with a majority of 326, a ward won by the Conservatives last year.

The Lib Dems secured huge swings of over 10% from Labour in the Abbey and Normanton wards compared to last year.

The Lib Dems also tripled their vote in the Labour stronghold of Derwent going from 9% and fourth place last year to 27% and second place this year.

Tony Sutton, until recently the councillor for Wollaton East and Lenton Abbey, has been campaigning to get to the truth behind possible co-ordinated publicity plans between the Labour Party and Nottingham City Council since 2007. The claim is that £20,000 of public money went to support Labour Party publicity before a local election.

At the cabinet tonight Broxtowe have agreed that the proposals for the new local plan, governing housing figures in the borough, should be passed to council on 16th May for a full debate and a decision.