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Welcome to Wandsworth Liberal Democrats web site!
This is the website for Battersea & Tooting Liberal Democrats. It covers general news for the Borough of Wandsworth and local news for Battersea, Tooting, Wandsworth Town, Balham and Earlsfield.
Local news for Putney, Southfields, Roehampton and Wimbledon Parkside is covered by Putney Liberal Democrats at www.putney-libdems.org
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Fri 17th Oct 2008
Wandsworth NHS Primary Care Trust, which commissions health services for Borough, should be brought under democratic control, say local Liberal Democrats. This follows the announcement of £4 million extra spending due to financial surpluses, after saying they could not afford to maintain services at Bolingbroke Hospital. "Important changes are happening in local NHS services, but local people are getting little or no say," says Matthew Green, Chair of Battersea & Tooting Lib Dems, "and we keep getting different stories about the state of finances. Meanwhile the Audit Commission rates the local finances as 'good' but quality of care as only 'fair' - surely the wrong way round in a properly prioritised service."
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Mon 7th Jul 2008
With yet another death from knife wounds reported in London this morning, fear of knife crime is rising. Deputy Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson announced that knife crime is now the Metropolitan Police's number one priority, overtaking terrorism, and that a special knife-crime unit was being set up. Commenting, Tooting Liberal Democrat Spokesperson, Stephanie Dearden said, "This comes as no surprise when we read almost daily of yet more and more young people failing victim to senseless killings on our streets. Ministers have repeatedly claimed that crime is falling, but figures show serious attacks that require hospital admission are up. What is most disturbing is the steep rise in serious stab wounds amongst young people. Teenagers don't feel safe on our streets, which is only fueling the spiral of knife crime in this country, and especially here in London."
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Thu 5th Jun 2008
We know that the local NHS bureaucrats don't like the Bolingbroke hospital, in their search for prestige new building projects. But many local people have rallied to its cause, with perhaps 17,000 signing petitions in its support. The Battersea Society has done a worthy job of representing local people's interests against the the various bureaucratic threats that keep confronting us. So imagine the shock of many of the Society's members when its latest newsletter came out in favour of a site in Grant Road for a new primary care facility, instead of the Boly. And this was the substance of the Society's response to Wandsworth PCT's consultation on future health services in Battersea & North Wandsworth.
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Sat 10th May 2008
Wandsworth Liberal Democrats thank all those who voted for the party and its candidates in the recent Mayoral and London Assembly elections, and all those who helped in the campaign. Special thanks is due to Shas Sheehan the Wandsworth & Merton Assembly candidate, and Wandsworth member Jeremy Ambache who was on the London member party list. They both worked tirelessly to get the message across.
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Thu 21st Feb 2008
Liberal Democrats condemn plans to close yet more post office branches. On 19th February the Government announced the planned closure of 8 Post Offices in Wandsworth Borough, four of them in Tooting. This was part of 2,500 closures planned nationally, 169 of which are in London. Brian Paddick, Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor, has launched a major campaign to save local post offices. "Post offices are often the heart of a local community and we must all do our utmost to preserve them. The trouble with economic arguments is that they leave people out of the equation and they are the most important part. Many people rely on a local post office, and to close 20% of London's post offices just shows a complete disregard for the needs of the local community," says Brian. See www.brianpaddick.org
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Tue 5th Feb 2008
Shas Sheehan will fight the Wandsworth & Merton constituency for the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly elections on 1st May. "I will not be the invisible representative for Wandsworth & Merton," she promises. "Nobody knows who their current representative is, because Tories and Labour take people for granted and don't try to communicate. I pledge to fight for my constituents in the London Assembly and tell them what I'm doing through newsletters and online."
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Wed 17th Oct 2007
Local Liberal Democrats have expressed their concerns that the collapse of Tube company Metronet might affect services to Londoners. Metronet, which was brought in by the Mayor Livingstone to upgrade much of our outdated Underground rail and stations, went bust earlier this year.
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