A chance for change in 2010: a message from Chris Nicholson

3.44.00pm GMT Tue 5th Jan 2010

As we celebrate the promise of the New Year, it is worth pausing to reflect on what residents and Liberal Democrats working together have achieved during the past 12 months.

We've succeeded in keeping our local police stations when Labour threatened to close them.

We demanded that the dedicated vice squad return to our area, and we've achieved that as well.

We managed to get hospitals to do their bit in helping the police beat knife crime.

Labour continue to ignore local residents, but you can be assured that 2010 holds a promise for change, both in Lambeth Council and in the national government.

A change from the same tired politics that led to the shameful money-grabbing by Westminster MPs, 'flipping' homes to evade tax and using taxpayers money, -YOUR money- to buy duck houses.

A change from the failed economic policies that made Britain the worst affected nation in the G20 and brought about record youth unemployment.

A change from Labour-run Lambeth which through dither and delay has put our ice rink and swimming pools at risk and condemned Council tenants to living in ever deteriorating conditions with spiralling rents.

This New Year also marks the beginning of a new decade. Liberal Democrats have put forward plans to lead Britain out of recession and into the new decade by building a green and innovative economy. We've taken the lead by championing the 10:10 initiative to cut carbon emissions, and we're calling for a redoubling of efforts to get a legally binding global deal after the failure at Copenhagen.

We will remove all income tax on the first £10,000 you earn, paid for by asking people at the top to pay a bit more. This would put 700 pounds back into the pockets of every average working family.

In this area it is only the Liberal Democrats who can beat Gordon Brown's Labour. Only the Liberal Democrats can bring the change our area deserves.

Please click the link below to find out how you can be a part of our movement for change.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Nicholson

Local Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Streatham, Clapham and Brixton

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