Whatever you think of the Liberal Democrats use of the word “bollocks”, it is smart political messaging that means that our real anti-Brexit message is getting an airing that it otherwise wouldn’t from the press.

Behind the slogan, the Liberal Democrats’ manifesto for the European Elections come 23 May 2019 is a serious document for what the UK could achieve if Brexit was stopped. Brexit is a failed project, which must now be stopped so our country and the whole of Europe can get on with dealing with the big challenges we face.

My Background:

I want to represent the area I’ve chosen to call my home. I’ll stand up for my friends and neighbours and challenge the Labour council when they get it wrong. I’ll also help residents to navigate the bureaucracy of local government to get problems solved. I have been a Charlton resident since 2010, and am a proud stay-at-home father to a talkative toddler. As a newcomer to the political scene I became more interested in local politics in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. Once I understood the lack of representation that residents had, especially when it came to planning, I decided I had to act.

l-r: Edmond Rose, Rhian O'Connor and Anthony Austin

The Liberal Democrats have selected candidates for the May local elections in Greenwich West ward. This ward has been a closely fought contest in the past, with the Liberal Democrats coming as close as 83 votes away from beating Labour prior to the Coalition. No other party has ever been anywhere near to beating Labour in Greenwich West.

The Liberal Democrats have announced they will invest more than £53 million more in schools and colleges in Greenwich borough over the next parliament.

The funding for Greenwich borough would reverse cuts to frontline school and college budgets, protect per pupil funding in real terms and ensure no school loses out from changes to funding arrangements.

Our Liberal Democrat champion in south-east London, Simon Hughes, is standing for election again!  Some of us still remember the Bermondsey by-election in 1983, pounding the streets, delivering Good Morning leaflets ludicrously early on Polling Day, and other tasks from the campaign HQ in St James church hall. 

It was amazing to go canvassing with Simon then, and it remains so now because he knows so many people.  For 32 years they knew him too, as a superb MP who would always go the extra mile to help.