Wakefield & Rothwell Lib Dems 🔶

If Arthur the local pub cat could vote he would love the local LibDem policies for wandering moggs: ✅Free occasional kibble ✅ Free neck wuddles and tummy rubs. ✅Suntrap lounging spots. Real manifesto here: libdems.org.uk/manifesto @GoltonStewart 4 Wakefield and Rothwell

Published on behalf of Stewart Golton, at Leeds Liberal Democrats, Escher House, 116 Cardigan Road, Leeds, LS6 3BJ

Well said @GoltonStewart! As WY Mayor, Stewart would work with the police to get the results our communities care about and support the officers on the frontline in tackling the scourge of ASB in our city.

This report confirms what communities have known for some time. We’re getting a poor deal. LibDems in Leeds show how the Labour regime could afford to pay for extra PCSOs on our streets every year in the city’s Budget debate. Every year they refuse to listen.

@Jonathan_Pryor Cheers. Great to see us all respecting each other. Leeds Labour act the same way as the Tories in Government. Elected dictators. Won’t listen to anyone else’s point of view. Spend money on silly things and then blame everyone else because ‘there is no money’ 1/2

It’s not all about campaigning with #Rothwell&District ⁦@LibDems⁩, & it was great to get together this weekend with members and supporters to say thank you for all their help in getting ⁦@chapman_diane1⁩ re-elected. Get in touch if you would like to get involved 👍🏻

@MayorOfWY Unless you increase the number of police officers on neighbourhood policing teams, and reverse your decision to cut the number of PCSOs in your budget for this year, there will be no offenders caught to offer ‘alternative’ justice to 🤷‍♂️

The Hare & Hounds was a welcome destination after joining Tom Leadley on his home turf in #WestArdsley for a day of campaigning. Tom’s neighbours are definitely up for a fresh start for Ardsley & Robin Hood ward with Tom as their new local councillor 🔶

Every year we recycle our stake posters, and in the process we are reminded of our brilliant colleagues, now gone, who inspired us to campaign for them, and on whose shoulders we carry on the commitment to represent our communities to the best of our abilities.

@BetterBusesWY @andrew_scopes @MayorOfWY has lauded her ‘Enhanced Bus Partnership’, handed over £35million to bus companies to pay for £2 ‘Mayors Fares’, and has another £36million yet to use to improve local services. Why isn’t she using her powerful funding position to get a better deal from bus operators?

Dear BBC, a gentle reminder that this is written on the side of your fucking headquarters. If I were you, I’d be sacking the chairman who withheld the truth, NOT the presenter who told it.

Unsurprisingly Labour voted against all opposition budget amendments. Dumbing down democracy again. All the plans were fully costed and viable but apparently they know best !

Council organised bonfire night displays ensure thousands enjoy safe organised events for free. This survey is heavily weighted to justify the Labour administration’s decision to withdraw funding. Please do the survey & tell them to make the £200k savings on city centre spending

So why is our Labour Mayor reducing the number of PCSOs on the streets of West Yorkshire to their lowest level since 2015?

The message is clear, even if the water certainly isn’t. Appalling.

Everyone wants Leeds to be a city where you don’t NEED to drive into the centre. Not sure hiking park and ride charges by c30% next month is how we deliver that aim! Hope @helenhayden01 and @TracyBrabin can help on this. Cost increases is one thing but these increases are huge.

Thanks @GoltonStewart for fighting for the right for free access to OUR parks. Compare with Labours Mayor who has: No parking, no busses, no clue! The Lib Dems in Leeds will keep fighting this ill thought out proposal. Sign the petition: digitallibdems.typeform.com/to/UXt4MwJ6?fb…

Leeds LibDems want more Street trees but the Labour-run Council prohibits trees being planted on residential streets and grass verges. We want to change this, as saving the environment is more important than making it easier for Council contractors to cut grass

Lib Dem group leader Stewart Golton said the charges risked excluding people from “some of the few free leisure attractions left” and that there was “genuine anger” about the idea yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/politics/…

@GoltonStewart @LeedsNews @DavidSpereall List of Leeds community parks included in the list of 21. Includes one in Rothwell thats been closed for a decade. One in Garforth with tiny car park lots of residential roads nearby and Meanwood park which apparently has limited mobile signal making payment impossible.

@LeedsNews @DavidSpereall This is the car park at Rothwell Country Park the Council has closed to motorists for over a decade and is used to store detritus from work they’ve done elsewhere. The argument about needing charges to pay for maintenance would be more convincing if neglect like this wasn’t norm

Kirkstall Abbey, Middleton Park and Otley Chevin are also going to soon charge visitors parking there | Via @DavidSpereall yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/lifestyle/outd…