Mary DAlbert

“This is my personal guarantee that I will use all the support you give me on Thursday to deliver fairness in Britain.

“We need a fairer tax system. I will use your votes to cut taxes for those at the bottom and in the middle and close the loopholes for those at the top.

“We need to support our children. I will use your votes to ensure extra funding for schools, to cut class sizes and give all children a fair chance.

“We need to clean up politics. I will use your votes to reform Parliament, to deliver a fairer voting system, protect your freedoms and give you the right to sack corrupt MPs.

“We need a new economy. I will use your vote to split up the banks, get them lending again, invest in green infrastructure and so create jobs.

“This election campaign has shown us that millions of people want us to do something different this time.

“Politicians should work together to solve the nation’s biggest problems.

“That is why, whatever the outcome on Thursday, I believe we should be prepared to work together to fix the terrible state of our public finances and ensure economic stability.

“These are the key steps to a new, fairer Britain. Give me the power of your vote and we can make it happen.

“Together, we can make the difference.”

View Nick Clegg’s guarantee here.

POLLING STATIONS
Polling stations are open on Thursday 6th May between 7.00am and 10.00pm. Your polling station is shown on your polling card. Don’t worry if you have lost your polling card as you don’t need this to vote.

BALLOT PAPERS
Everyone has two votes this year. On a YELLOW ballot paper we can vote in the local elections to choose a Councillor for this area. On a WHITE ballot paper we can vote in the General Election to chose an MP for Bury South constituency.

POSTAL VOTES
Don’t worry if you have not yet returned your postal vote. Fill it in as normal, and take the sealed envelope to your local polling station or the Town Hall before 10pm on Thursday.

LIFTS / QUESTIONS
We will be very happy to provide a lift for people who need a help getting to polling stations. If you need a lift or have any questions call the Lib Dems on 773 9905.

CAN YOU HELP!
Can you help the Liberal Democrats on polling day? The more volunteers the more chance of winning! Call us on 773 9905 or email
Find out more:
www.burylibdems.net

The latest broadcast from the Liberal Democrats

“Bury Council could do better.” That’s the verdict from local people fed up with rising Council Tax bills and failing services under the Conservatives. Liberal Democrats have investigated the Council’s record since the Conservatives took control of the Town Hall in 2007, and have found big cuts in services at the same time as big increases in bills. Take a look at Bury under the Conservatives. If this is what they’re doing in Bury, imagine what they’d do to the country if they were in charge!

Nick Clegg’s opening statement for the BBC’s third election debate:

Labour have failed our area. Here are just some of the promises with local people they’ve broken.

Help us get the Liberal Democrat message across in Bury this year. If you’re interested in helping during the election campaign, or can display a window poster get in touch.

richard@burylibdems.net
Call Mary on 0161 773 9905

Your team of Liberal Democrats have been busy all year round in St Mary’s Ward. Here’s just a summary of some of the achievements in the local area in the last year or so.

The Liberal Democrats in Bury have launched their plans for a Liberal Democrat run Bury Council:

A Liberal Democrat Bury will:

1 - Get the Basics Right
We’ll concentrate on making sure that the basic services that everyone needs work well. This will include spending more money on street repairs and getting bin collections working and better gritting.

2 - Better Place to Live
We’ll make sure everything we do helps make our towns and communities better places to live. Our first priorities will be improving our environment and making people feel safe from crime. This will include providing extra community policing in each town of Bury.

3 - Power to the People
We’ll cut back Town Hall bureaucracy and give power back to local towns and citizens. Everything we do will be open and fair and involve local people. We will immediately give back the right of people to ask questions at every meeting of the Council.

4 - More Money in Your Pocket
We will keep Council Tax as low as we can, and make what Bury Council does great value for money for local people.

THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT MANIFESTO

This is a manifesto you can trust. We have stripped our priorities back to the essential, fundamental changes that Britain needs to make it fair:

• Fair taxes that put money back in your pocket
• A fair chance for every child
• A fair future, creating jobs by making Britain greener
• And a fair deal by cleaning up politics

These are deliverable, practical plans to make your life better, and they are right there on the front cover of our manifesto. Instead of rhetoric and razzmatazz, we are saying what we will do and how we will pay for it.

Elections should be a competition of ideas, not marketing budgets. They may have the bigger budgets but we have the bigger ideas.And you can trust us to deliver because unlike the other parties, we have spelt out, line by line in the manifesto how every single policy is paid for, and how we will reduce the deficit.

We have set out £15bn of details spending cuts and just £5bn a year of new spending, meaning £10bn for the deficit every year. We are the first party to put detailed spending plans into a manifesto.

Four key pledges

1. Fair taxes: We will ensure no-one pays income tax on the first £10,000 they earn. Most taxpayers will get a tax cut of £700 a year. We’ll pay for it by closing loopholes that unfairly benefit the rich, a new tax on mansions worth over £2m, a crack down on tax avoidance and higher aviation duty.
2. A fair start for all our children: We will get every child the individual attention they need by cutting class sizes. We will spend an extra £2.5bn on schools, targeted at children who need the most help. The average primary school could cut class sizes to 20. An average secondary school could see classes of just 16.
3. A fair future: a rebalanced, green economy: We will break up the banks and rebalance the economy away from unsustainable financial speculation. We will be honest about where savings must be made in government spending to balance the books and protect our children’s future. And we will create new jobs with a £3.1bn green stimulus and job creation plan in our first year in office, fully funded by cut backs elsewhere.
4. A fair deal from politicians: We will introduce a fair voting system. We will ensure corrupt MPs can be sacked by their constituents and stop non-doms from donating to parties or sitting in Parliament. We will take power from Westminster and give it to communities, with local power over police and the NHS, and introduce a freedom bill to protect and restore civil liberties.

We also have the following commitments:

• Protect front line NHS services. We will help the NHS work better with the money it has and protect front line services by re-investing the savings we find back into healthcare
• Recruit 3,000 more police officers to keep our streets safe and scrapping ID cards
• Scrap student tuition fees to reduce the burden of student debt immediately and eliminate fee debt altogether over 6 years
• A pay rise for our brave service men and women together with cut backs of bureaucrats and top brass officers in the Ministry of Defence
• Uprate the basic state pension in line with earnings immediately so that pensioners do not fall further behind when the economy starts to grow again

YOU CAN READ NICK CLEGGS MANIFESTO LAUNCH SPEECH HERE

YOU CAN READ OR DOWNLOAD A COPY OF OUR MANIFESTO HERE: libdem_manifesto_2010.pdf

ALTERNATIVELY YOU CAN VIEW OUR MANIFESTO IN FULL OR SECTIONS ON OUR WEBSITE HERE