Welcome to High Peak Liberal Democrats!

The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity.

The Constituency Party of the High Peak Liberal Democrats is managed by an Executive Committee which is elected annually. It manages the affairs of the party within the High Peak. Members join one of the two branches in the constitiuency, High Peak North & South. The North branch includes Glossop, New Mills and Hayfield. The South branch includes Buxton, Chapel and Whaley Bridge.

The Executive consists of a Constituency President, Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Secretary and Data Officer and six ordinary members. Meetings are held regularly and move around the High Peak to make it easy for all members to come along.

We are one of the five counties which make up the East Midlands Region of the Liberal Democrats. It oversees matters like the selection of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates and is the base for our MEP, Bill Newton Dunn.

Like all constituencies of the Liberal Democrat Party we follow national policies which are voted on at conference, taking our lead from the party headquarters at Cowley Street in London.

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Why I'm backing the Lib Dems New! Written by John Kampfner and published in The Guardian - Comment is Free on Tue 9th Mar 2010 It started with Iraq. But in 2010 Nick Clegg's party has become the natural home for left-liberal Cookites like me

Pitch Battle at Gamesley New! Mon 8th Mar 2010 A trophy-winning children's football club on one of the North West's most deprived housing estates may be forced to take the early bath unless it can find a new playing field.

Government should nurture virtue - People are born good, but the unfairness of modern Britain wrecks solidarity. Economic and political reform can change this Written by Nick Clegg and published in The Guardian on Sun 28th Feb 2010 I basically believe people are born good. How can you think anything else when you see the innocence of young children? Of course, people are born with different, sometimes difficult, personalities. But fundamental optimism about human nature has always been a driving impulse of mine. I believe most people, most of the time, will do the right thing for themselves and their community if they are given the power and opportunity to do so.

Nick Clegg sets out respite for carers guarantee Mon 22nd Feb 2010 In a speech to the King's Fund, Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg guarantees a week's respite care from caring every year to the 1m unpaid carers who provide more than 50 hours care each week.

Iraq becomes election battle Written by Michael Broomhead and published in Buxton Advertiser on Thu 18th Feb 2010 BATTLE LINES have been drawn by the Liberal Democrats' Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the High Peak - after he slammed a rival's "lack of principles" over the war in Iraq.

Destination: Romance - Peak District - Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg revels in the beauty of Britain's natural landscape Written by Nick Clegg and published in The Observer on Tue 16th Feb 2010 For me, one of the most romantic places in the world is just 15 minutes from my front door: Stanage Edge, a vast gritstone escarpment in the Peak District National Park. It's one of the most beautiful places in the world for a walk, and my wife Miriam and I head there regularly to do just that. Sometimes we go for long rambles, following the endless line of cliffs; other times we just take in that breathtaking view across the landscape, which never fails to move me. It must be one of the few places in the country where you can gaze for miles and miles and not see a single telephone mast - the views are endless and uninterrupted. If I've had a stressful day, Stanage Edge is the best place to be - hassle just seems to fall away. And even if the weather is foul, it still manages to be beautiful. It gives you romance year round. In winter we'll wrap up in our thick coats and scarfs and trudge through the snow, and in summer we'll find a quiet spot and doze in the sun on a boulder. Walks don't get more romantic than that.

HIGH PEAK CRICKET IS A REAL WINNER Mon 15th Feb 2010 Alistair Stevens, Chairman of the High Peak Cricket Development Group, and new Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for High Peak presented some of the 2010 squad with their new kit at a recent training session at Chapel school.

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