I will be supporting this budget but before I do a quick word about the proposals from the opposition :-
So back to the Liberal Democrat Budget I am pleased to support this budget which although it has an increase 1% below inflation is still able to support increase spending with :-
I am also pleased to support the three main themes of :-
It is quite right that the most important of these is Climate Change. Yet the Government response to Climate Change only last week was to downgrade and delay bringing forward Climate Change bills and the Government response to flood defence has been to cut flood defence budgets.
Yet Climate Change is by far the greatest threat to this country and those of us who have seen the now Oscar winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” will realise that.
In Eastleigh we do take this threat seriously and will continue as outlined this evening to make this of utmost importance, so that we can look forward to a future which is both confident and sustainable.