Bexley Borough Liberal Democrats

Over 20 million working people will be better off next year after Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government delivered the biggest ever increase in the income tax personal allowance in the Budget.

The massive £3.5bn tax cut for working people delivers:

• The biggest ever single uplift in the tax threshold
• A personal allowance of £9,205 in April 2013
• 21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
• Brings the total tax cut for basic rate tax payers to £550
• Brings the total number of people lifted out of tax to 2 million.

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg used his speech to the Party's Spring conference in NewcastleGateshead to call for the forthcoming budget to be a "budget for fairness" and pledged that it would help working familes.

The Deputy Prime Minister pledged that by 2015 Britain would have seen an end to control orders, the first gay marriages and the first elections to the House of Lords.

Fairer taxes, promoting green jobs, protecting your civil liberties - these are just some of the achievements of the Liberal Democrats in government.

We're building a freer, greener and more liberal country - and stopping some of the worst excesses of the Conservatives. Find out more in this infographic.

Sam Webber has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the GLA constituency of Bexley and Bromley. He won over 70% of first preference votes at the meeting on 5 November.

Sam Webber has previously stood for election to Bromley Council in 2006 and 2010. He was also the Liberal Democrat candidate in Bromley and Chislehurst at the 2010 General election, coming second to Bob Neill MP with 22% of the vote. He lives in Bromley and has previously worked for Simon Hughes MP.

In his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference, Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has outlined his goals for the Government and the country over the coming years. He reiterated his commitment to liberal values on the environment and human rights and his determination to ensure a fair chance for every child, saying "every child can do good things, great things, if only we give them the opportunities they deserve."

On 5th May you have a choice. You can keep the discredited First Past the Post system to elect our MPs, or you can choose a new and fairer system - Alternative Vote (AV). Back the campaign for change at www.YesToFairerVotes.org

AV is a small change that makes a big difference.

Saying YES! to Fairer Votes Means:

News came through last week that there will definitely be a referendum in May, about whether to ditch the out-dated "first past the post" electoral system, under which millions of British people are forced to vote for parties that are not their preferred choice, and millions more just have their vote discarded.

Writing after the meeting of the LIberal Democrat Parliamentary Party and Federal Executive (the main national executive committee of the Liberal Democrats) tonight, Duncan Borrowman, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Old Bexley & Sidcup wrote:

Tonight, as a member of the Liberal Democrat Federal Executive, I took part in the joint meeting of the Federal Executive and Parliamentary Party.

Duncan Borrowman, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Old Bexley & Sidcup, has pledged to give £15,000 per year to local Bexley charities if elected on Thursday.

Duncan Borrowman says: "I have been sickened, like everybody else locally, by the greed of politicians. I am not in politics for myself, but for local people. That is why I am pledging, that if elected, I will give £15,000 a year from my MP's salary to local charities in Bexley".

Lib Dem Duncan Borrowman took a day off on Saturday from the campaign trail to be Old Bexley & Sidcup's next MP to receive a BA degree from the Vice Chancellor of the Open University at the Barbican Centre.

Duncan, who took courses in Politics and Not for Profit Management said: "I was delighted to receive my degree. The OU is a great institution which gives many people the chance to gain a degree when they would not be able to otherwise attend a full time course, because of their work, raising children or other pressures on their time. Taking an OU degree gave me incredible challenges in balancing my time, but the end result was very much worth the sacrifices needed."