Dear Residents of North Somerset

Young or old, working or retired, in work or between jobs, at school or at University. Here's to a Happy, Free, Fair and Green, Liberal Democratic New Year.

It was great to be selected at the end of November as parliamentary candidate for the Lib Dems in North Somerset, and now the real work begins. We know that if we can unite the centre left here, and bring people that have voted for the Labour and Green Parties in the past to vote with us, we can defeat the Tories and give the majority the voice they deserve. We believe in many of the same things and we can start to achieve them together. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, 'United we can win, divided we won't'.

It is an important time, for us locally and nationally.

In North Somerset the cuts that the Tory run council is threatening to bring in will hit education and care for those in need, and hit the environment, and it does not even look like they are needed.

Nationally with our new leader Nick Clegg in place we have a popular rising star to lead us, so log on to his YouTube site by following the link below and hear what her has to say in person:

http://c.cminteractive.com/?1nqhPkffY=1944405

Once again Have a Happy and Safe New Year, and as the Centre Left lets WORK TOGETHER TO WIN IN NORTH SOMERSET!

Dr. Brian Mathew  

Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for North Somerset