Central Devon Lib Dems

22/01/2026

Please note we have a new page Central Devon Liberal Democrats and official posts to this page will cease. Thank you.

28/10/2025

If Labour agree that the Tories' botched Brexit deal is hurting our country, they should stop complaining and start fixing it.

Starting with a new UK-EU customs union.

24/10/2025

A visitor from Paignton!

18/09/2025

Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.

18/09/2025

Our national broadcaster should be reflective the whole country, not a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage.

The BBC must provide fair, balanced and representative journalism.

29/08/2025

The Leader of Devon County Council, Councillor Julian Brazil, says that the council will continue to call for a ‘fundamental reform’ of the funding system that decides how much funding councils get from central government.

It follows the announcement this week that the government’s plans for reform rely heavily on councils raising their council tax precepts by the maximum 5 percent to support ‘core spending’. Read more https://www.devon.gov.uk/news/council-leader-calls-for-a-fundamental-reform-of-local-authority-funding/

29/08/2025

Possible causes of your problems. With everything that’s currently going on it seems like a diagram that (sadly) is still relevant in 2025, so reposting, a year and a bit on. Alt text below.

[Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.]

26/04/2025

25/04/2025

There are some Tories retelling how Devon County Council debt and SEND provision problems were inherited and not their fault..... VOTE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT on 1st May to sort out their mess. The truth is as simple as the following SEND debt is solely a Conservative generated debt.
The county council’s historic debt includes about £60 million borrowed under a Conservative Leader. This ‘debt’ was used to invest in schools, roads, residential care homes for older people etc. if examples are needed, let me know.
Current Conservative ‘hidden debt’ amounts to £95m. They call it internal borrowing - taking from Peter to pay Paul.
The Conservatives inherited £300 million in cash savings (reserves) from the Lib Dem’s in 2009. Reserves are now approx £105 million - so Tories have burnt through some £200million in savings - and, of course, we’ve lost the income from the bank interest in that.
In addition, we have the SEND debt of about £160 million.
Far from being careful financial managers, the conservatives have brought Devon CC to the brink of bankruptcy.

16/04/2025