Broadland Liberal Democrats

Dan Roper lives in the constituency with his wife and young family. He has impeccable local credentials as he grew up barely three miles from his current home and went to Sprowston High school.

He is a manager in the Probation Service and is currently based in a prison.

In recent weeks he organised a petition campaign to save the local post office in his home village of Spixworth that raised 1000 signatures in a week. It was recently confirmed that a Post Office will shortly re-open in the village.

On 11th May, Nick Clegg made the following announcement:

"We are now going to form a new government. More importantly than anything else, we are going to form a new kind of government; I hope this is the start of a new kind of politics I have always believed in. Diverse, plural, where politicians with different points of view find a way to work together to provide the good government for the sake of the whole country deserves."

By-Election News

Liberal Democrats winning in Broadland and North Norfolk

Every recent By election result shows voters in this area are turning to the Liberal Democrats for their Local Council representative. In all of these, Labour and the other minority parties have not contested the seat, or achieved very little support.

Nick Clegg has launched the Liberal Democrat General Election manifesto. The manifesto sets out four clear priorities of fair taxes, a fair chance for every child, a fair economy, and a fair deal by cleaning up politics.

At the launch, Nick Clegg said:

"Every manifesto needs to have an idea at its heart. The basic idea that animates this manifesto is something I have always believed. I believe every single person is extraordinary.

People across the new Broadland parliamentary constituency are represented at local level by Liberal Democrat councillors on Broadland District Council, North Norfolk District Council, and Norfolk County Council.

If you're not sure who your councillor is, visit this website

Broadland District Council

Aylsham

Liberal Democrat Nich Starling has been elected by voters in the Taverham North Ward onto Broadland District Council

Result

Conservatives 417

Green Party 54

Liberal Democrats 630

The result was clearly a disappointment for Keith Simpson and Broadland Conservatives who looked disconcerted at the count.

More Analysis & views on the By Election page later.

Candidates revealed for Broadland by-election - From the EDP Website

A by-election for the vacant Taverham-north council set will be contested by three candidates.

Nominations closed today and the Conservatives, Lib Dems and the Greens are each fielding candidates in the Broadland Council ward.

Candidates are John Griffin (Conservative), Jennifer Parkhouse (Green Party), Nick Starling (Liberal Democrat).

The parliamentary boundaries in Norfolk are changing, and Norfolk is gaining an MP.

The reason for these changes is the growth of the county's population.

The new parliamentary constituency for Norfolk will be called 'Broadland', but its geography is far from limited to the Broads! In fact, it stretches to the west of the county beyond Fakenham.

Liberal Democrats in Broadland have made further calls for the Rackheath 'Eco-town' to be scrapped after it emerged that the funding allocated to the project from central government is far lower than the bid which Broadland District Council submitted last year.

Rackheath has been guaranteed less than £12million, which is far short of the £28million (approx.) which the council asked for. This has led to fears that it will be the infrastructure which will be hit first and hardest, further endangering the quality of life of existing residents. Dan Roper, who will contest the Broadland parliamentary constituency for the Lib Dems at this year's general election, said: "This has confirmed all of our worst fears. The infrastructure projects which featured among the reasons for the bid for central government money look set to miss out, and this could lead to untold misery for people already living in the Rackheath area."