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Thank you for visiting my website and, if you one of the 23,311 people in Newbury who voted for me on May 5, 2005, thank you very much indeed for your support.
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David Rendel
By-Election Shows Tories Sliding Further
Tue 15th Apr 2008
A massive effort by the Conservatives to regain Thatcham North in last Thursday's Thatcham Town Council by-election came to nothing as the Liberal Democrats more than doubled their majority from 98 to 240. The seat had been lost by the Conservatives to their Liberal Democrat opponents in another by-election on January 10th. But the result of this by-election (which was called by the Conservatives) exactly three months later was an even bigger win for Liberal Democrat, Glyn Slater, by 831 votes to 591. As usual there was no Labour candidate.
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Sad Day for Vodafone Employees
Tue 18th Mar 2008
"Losing your job is always traumatic, and I have every sympathy for the 450 Vodafone employees who are about to lose theirs", commented David Rendel, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Newbury.
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Tory makes £16M Budget Error
Fri 7th Mar 2008
The Conservative Finance Portfolio Holder on West Berkshire Council, Laszlo Zverko, made a massive error at the Executive meeting of the Council on Thursday evening. In answer to a question from Liberal Democrat Councillor, Alan Macro, Councillor Zverko claimed that a figure of -£8,218,691, given as the cumulative budget to date for the Chief Executive's Dept., must be a misprint for +£8,218,691.
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Tories vote down fairer, safer, greener district
Thu 6th Mar 2008
West Berkshire's Liberal Democrats have expressed their anger following the Full Council meeting which set the budget for 08/09. "The Conservatives have claimed that they want the District to be Fairer, Safer and Greener", explained Shadow Finance spokesman David Rendel.
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| Newbury General Election Result |
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Turnout: 54673 (72%)
49%
Conservative: 26771 (+5.5%)
42.6%
Liberal Democrat: 23311 (−5.6%)
5.9%
Labour: 3239 (−1%)
View the results in detail.
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"Liberalism in Britain has lost a great champion, the Liberal Democrats, a great advocate and our public life, a great servant. "
Lord Paddy Ashdown
In memory of Lord Richard Holme, who died on 5 May
"If the Tories want to claim that they are going to cut corporation tax, they have to come clean about how they are going to pay for it. Cutting the main rate of corporation tax to 25% will cost more than £5bn a year. If David Cameron is to have a hope of sounding credible he must state clearly where the money will come from. Otherwise this will be seen as yet another unfunded tax cut. "
Vince Cable - Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor
www.libdems.org.uk - 2 May
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