http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articlearchive.php Recent Press Articles from High Peak Liberal Democrats en-GB High Peak Liberal Democrats http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 High Peak Liberal Democrats 2010-03-10T17:49+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000027/why_im_backing_the_lib_dems.html It started with Iraq. But in 2010 Nick Clegg's party has become the natural home for left-liberal Cookites like me 2010-03-09T11:47+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000026/government_should_nurture_virtue__people_are_born_good_but_the_unfairness_of_modern_britain_wrecks_solidarity_economic_and_political_reform_can_change_this.html 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. 2010-02-28T11:47+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000025/iraq_becomes_election_battle.html 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. 2010-02-18T00:00+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000024/destination_romance__peak_district__lib_dem_leader_nick_clegg_revels_in_the_beauty_of_britains_natural_landscape.html 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. 2010-02-16T16:35+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000023/lib_dems_rule_out_coalition_government.html Nick Clegg says party would seek support for policies rather than cabinet posts 2010-02-15T10:00+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000022/lib_dems_choose_local_candidate.html A WELL-KNOWN local cricketer has been named the Liberal Democrats' Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for High Peak at the next General Election. 2010-02-11T00:00+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000021/opinion_polls__tories_retain_lead_in_icm_poll_but_liberal_democrats_gain_at_21.html All sorts of things might change the public mood before polling day, but if nothing does, a Guardian/ICM poll gives a good snapshot of the likely result. 2010-01-25T20:45+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000020/theres_plenty_of_fuel_but_its_going_to_cost_us.html When it is bitterly cold outside, a long hard winter is more bearable if it is reliably warm inside. During the recent Arctic conditions, we have been hearing scare stories about threats to energy supplies and people have understandably been worrying. 2010-01-19T11:04+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000019/snowbound_mother_delivers_baby_after_mountain_rescue_delivers_midwife.html Stranded at home in Peak District snow, Melanie Pollitt fired off SOS to fellow users of Mumsnet website. 2010-01-15T00:00+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000018/liberal_parenting.html Nick Clegg has liberal views on childcare and commanding ones on the best way to run a political party. Yesterday he generated headlines by criticising Gina Ford's bestselling, bossy instructions for pacifying babies. He also ordered his party to drop some of its favourite policies, announcing sternly that "the politics of plenty are over". He wants to play Victorian father to a party whose policymaking processes more often resemble the permissive society. 2010-01-12T13:09+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000017/nick_clegg_forget_it__love_bombs_bounce_off_me.html Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the Lib Dem leader, but as the prospect of a hung parliament looms, he insists his party won't be jumping into bed with any rival 2010-01-10T18:05+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000016/the_liberal_democrats_are_not_for_sale.html Hostilities have started. The frenzied announcements and counter-announcements from the Conservative and Labour parties over the past few days point towards a long, grinding election campaign. 2010-01-05T10:31+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000015/sir_menzies_campbell_you_ask_the_questions.html The Lib Dem MP for North East Fife, and former Lib Dem leader, answers your questions, such as 'What is Cleggism?' and 'Is the dream of proportional representation dead?' 2010-01-04T11:45+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000014/seats_to_delay_general_election_count.html David Cameron, the Tory party leader, may not know for sure whether he has won the general election until 24 hours after the polls have closed because of delays in counting the ballot papers. 2010-01-04T11:03+00:00 http://www.highpeaklibdems.org.uk/articles/000013/lift_the_gaza_blockade__the_suffering_is_shocking_and_nobody_will_benefit_from_the_radicalism_that_confinement_engenders.html On 27 December last year, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, an overwhelming exercise of military force aimed at silencing the Hamas rockets which had terrorised Israeli towns and villages. The immediate effects of the invasion are well known: 1,400 Palestinians dead, mostly civilians, with many more wounded or displaced; 10 Israeli soldiers and three civilians killed, dozens more injured; and thousands of families in southern Israel forced to flee to other parts of the country. The rocketfire from Gaza into Israel has slowed but has not entirely ceased. Hamas is still in power. 2009-12-22T21:14+00:00