Lib Dem Achievements in Government

I don't often post about the party rather than what I'm up to or what I think so I thought I would today.

Mark Pack, a well known Lib Dem has produced a wonderful poster to remind us of all the great things that the Lib Dems have achieved in government and I wanted to share it here.



There is also an A3 PDF available for printing.  For those of you with screen readers I'll list the achievements here too:

1. Income tax cuts with 2.7m lower earners being freed of income tax burden completely.


2. Tax hikes for the rich - a £1m/year earner will pay £381k tax more over the five years of this government than they did under the last 5 years of the Labour government


3. Created the world's first National Green Development Bank


4. Started move than 502,600 apprenticeships in 20011/12 - more than Britain has ever had before.


5. The pupil premium - in 2013 their school is given £900 for each eligible child (generally those that get free school meals or have done so in the last six years)


6. Pensions and earnings are linked better again so we won't see repeats of some of the awful derisory rises that we have seen in the past.


7. Bank reform means that High Street banks will be better protected from some of the excesses of casino banking that really hit the UK in the banking crisis


8. Civil Liberties:  scrapping ID cards, banning storing DNA of innocent people, stopping detention of children during immigration cases, cutting the maximum period of detention without charge, and much more.


9. Protecting post offices


10. Building more homes.  190,000 affordable units over the next four years.  The first net increase in social housing for over 30 years.


11. Equal Marriage - very nearly there!


12. Shared parental leave and 15 hours of free childcare for all 3 and 4 year olds.

All pretty amazing stuff!