Largest Liberal Fielding in Liverpool

Twentynine Out of Thirty Wards Contested

The Liberal Party are standing candidates in all thirty wards of the Liverpool local elections, bar one. Even though we are the third strongest force in Liverpool, (polling more than the Conservatives and Greens combined), our members decided not to target St Michael's ward because the three councillors already representing it have regularly opposed plans to demolish thousands of homes in the city under the Housing Market Renewal Initiative, and have fought to save the local parks.

The Liberal Party is fiercely opposed to these policies and many of the new candidates are local campaigners who have been fighting to overturn the plans, including Nina Edge from the Welsh Streets, Mike Butler from Anfield, Griff Parry in the Picton ward and Elizabeth Pascoe who is challenging the Kensington and Fairfield Ward.

Liberal Party President  Cllr Steve Radford said: "This is the highest number of wards we have ever fielded."

"There is a huge amount of people in this city who do not want to see swathes of Liverpool knocked down. Because we have a Liberal Democrat leadership, and this is a Labour government policy, there is no one to oppose the scheme except us."

"We are a network of ordinary people with sound principals and our main aim at the moment is to put a stop to this madness."

The full list of Liberal Party candidates is available here:
http://www.liberal.org.uk/electsdesk/2006/local.htm