Medway Liberal Democrats have responded to Medway Council's "New Routes to Growth" consultation on proposed plans to develop the Hoo Peninsula. Having looked at the consultation, we are concerned that the plans for cycling and walking routes around the Peninsula are vague and lack ambition. .
Graham Colley said "Priti Patel's proposals to outlaw aspects of peaceful demonstration that she and her government found inconvenient, embarrassing or unhelpful are authoritarian and antidemocratic. It was reasonable to organise a peaceful demonstration against them.
Graham Colley the Liberal Democrat, Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) candidate for Kent has added his criticisms of the Metropolitan Police action Clapham on Saturday evening and through LibDemLawyers/Rights-Liberties-Justice takes action. " The use of force by the Met Police to exert authority, exemplifies the violence against which the women were protesting. Whilst the Met got this badly wrong and continue to do so, the problem is far deeper than this incident."
Graham Colley, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Police & Crime Commissioner for Kent, is calling on Priti Patel not to impose centralised crime targets on local police forces, warning it "would be a grave mistake" that "risks seriously undermining" police officers.
Graham Colley, Liberal Democrat candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Election for Kent has called for the withdrawal of the Police, Courts and Sentencing Bill, which was only published on 9th March and is having its second reading in Parliament today, 15 March, with little time for consideration of its sweeping powers.
Liberal Democrats have welcomed the key protections being introduced today in the landmark Domestic Abuse Bill that would extend the crime of revenge porn to include threats to share intimate images, and widen the ban on cross-examination of survivors of domestic abuse in the civil courts.