In the General Election on June 8th, in which the Liberal Democrats saw their parliamentary representation go up from 8 seats to 12 - a 50% increase - Christopher Townsend and the Lib Dem team achieved a respectable result.
The Economist, the prestigious business affairs weekly with a global circulation and high reputation among businessmen in every country, has endorsed the Liberal Democrats in the UK General Election. They wrote, "No party passes with flying colours. But the closest is the Liberal Democrats. Brexit is the main task of the next government and they want membership of the Single Market and Free Movement . They are more honest than the Tories about the need to raise taxes for public services - and they are more sensible than Labour, spreading the burden rather than leaning only on high-earners. Unlike Labour they would reverse the Tories' most regressive welfare cuts. They are on the right side of other issues: devolution of power away from London, reform of the voting system and of the House of Lords." "Against a backward-looking Labour Party and an inward-looking Tory party about to compound its historic mistake over Brexit, They get our vote" Consider a vote for the Liberal Democrats as a down-p
Mike Chapman discusses Bovingdon's roads with Lib Dem county councillor Nick Hollinghurst.
Yesterday I attended Ann Shaw's Memorial Service which filled St Marys Church, Rickmansworth with many friends and colleagues. I had known Ann for 30 years. I valued her as a friend, appreciated her as a colleague and admired her as an effective community politician. I shall miss her very greatly.
Christopher Townsend, the Liberal Democrat candidate for South West Hertfordshire has called for greater clarity on the funding arrangements for the New Surgery in Tring.
The Liberal Democrat Candidate in the Bovingdon By-Election, Mike Chapman says, "Conservative complacency is letting us down"