Working for you - Nick Clegg supports Elisabeth Wilson's decent homes campaign

I will put local people first. I will be there to help, listen to your concerns and stand up for our community. I will:

have an office in the constituency open at advertised times every week.

let you know how you can contact me with any concerns – by phone, email and by holding regular surgeries in easily accessible places.

ask you every year to complete a survey about what matters to you and report back on what I am doing.

I will make sure your voice is heard – locally and at Westminster. I will be a strong voice for Halifax. I will:

Push for jobs, training, education or internships for all under 25s unemployed for more than 3 months.  Some of these will be new green jobs, such as insulating homes

Work for a fair deal for pensioners

Support reform of the banks

meet regularly with local service providers like the police, health services and residents’ groups.

I will be open and honest about all expenses incurred in representing you. I will:

publish details on my personal website.

answer questions you may have about them promptly.

not profit personally from the use of expenses

pay taxes in the United Kingdom

Elisabeth M.Wilson

Lib Dem candidate for Halifax, Elisabeth Wilson, took the opportunity to ask Nick Clegg, Lib Dem leader, about the future of banking at a “town hall meeting” in Bradford.  Pointing out that “the Halifax” had gone from a building society to a bank, to a bigger bank, and now part of the huge LloydsTSB group, she expressed her concern for the effects on local employment as well as financial stability.

Nick Clegg said banks needed major surgery.  There should be a tightly regulated sector for high street banks where the public could trust their savings – and if things went wrong they would be bailed out.

This sector should be completely separate from the risk taking activities that had caused the banking crisis, which he said was the fault of greedy banker. This had led to the current recession. In his view there should be a 10% levy on the profits of banks until the loan from the taxpayers was paid off.

Nick Clegg compared Lib Dem proposals to the weak efforts of the current Labour government, merely having a one-off tax on bonuses, which many banks were planning to get round.

Later in the evening Elisabeth Wilson was able to have more discussions about the concerns local people have for employment in the Halifax area with Nick Clegg.

Nick Clegg was visiting Bradford for a town hall meeting at the Karmand community centre, where members of the public could put any questions to him.

The picture shows Elisabeth Wilson, Lib Dem candidate for Halifax with Nick Clegg MP, Lib Dem leader