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Issued by:
Councillor Peter Reisdorf
Date of Issue: September 14th 2007
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Green boost for Liberal Democrats as Wirral heads for conference

LIBERAL Democrats from Wirral have welcomed the results of an audit of policies of the three main political parties that shows Menzies Campbell's party as the best for the environment.

The audit was carried out by a group of major environmental organisations, including Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the National Trust, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust and WWF-UK.

It awarded the parties “green lights” according to how green their policies were. The Conservatives scored zero, Labour one and the Liberal Democrats three.

Speaking at a meeting of Liberal Democrat members about the forthcoming party conference in Brighton , Councillor Peter Reisdorf , a Wirral West representative at the Conference, said the verdict of the green groups was a great boost for the party.

“This audit has confirmed what we have been saying in Wirral for many years,” said Cllr. Reisdorf. “Liberal Democrats are leading the battle of ideas for protecting the environment and cutting the pollution people cause.

“Here on Wirral we have led the way on recycling, which in June reached 35% compared to 14% for 2006/7. Wirral residents will clearly exceed the target for 2007/8 of 23%.”

“At our conference next week we will be debating plans that will put us even further ahead of Labour and the Conservatives. These include plans to shift more people from domestic flights to a greatly improved high speed rail system.”

“And we will discuss our plans for cutting income tax by 4p in the pound to 16p, paid for by shifting more of the tax burden onto pollution.”

Note: next year the Liberal Democrats Spring Conference will be held at the new Liverpool Arena Conference Centre