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Conference Motion 

“A Fair, Free and Green Britain”

Torridge & West Devon Lib Dems get motion as main item for debate at Regional Conference

Tuesday 6 November 2007

The Regional Conference committee have agreed to put the Torridge & West Devon Lib Dems motion on “A Fair, Free and Green Britain” (shown below) up for debate as the main item on Sunday Morning 18th November at the Regional SouthWest/Devon and Cornwall Conference.

This is a great success for members of the local party.  The main speakers to the motion will be Adam Symons (recently selected as PPC) and Baroness Sue Miller.  This is expected to be the only motion from Devon and Cornwall on the order paper, so should ensure a lively debate and should elicit contributions from many regional political stars.

The full text of the motion is:

This conference believes that to implement nationally the Party’s desire for a fair, free and green Britain, the Western Counties and Devon and Cornwall regions must play a significant part using our natural resources, distinctive economies and opportunities and therefore urges the Government to:

1.  FAIR   Give the regions a fair allocation of national funds to take account of our largely rural economy and population, dependence on tourism, agriculture, fishing and smaller than average but sparsely spread communities, in order to preserve the availability and beauty of our attractions as holiday destinations and improve our social, health and education services and the regions’ economic viability.  Give the regions fairer allocation of funds for flood and coastal risk management in our increasingly vulnerable areas.

2.  FREE   Give our regions’ people, with their knowledge of the regions’ needs, economies and attractions, greater control of their own affairs through a democratically elected regional authority which will work with and support their unitary councils including parishes, districts, counties, cities and the new unitary authority in Cornwall aided by priority financial and legislative assistance from the Westminster parliament and the European Union.

3.  GREEN   Support the regions’ efforts to harness our tides, winds and water resources including the Severn and other tidal power schemes (while preserving valuable ecological features of the regions) and other carbon efficient energy generation and use including wind turbines on and offshore, the preservation of our security and safety by decommissioning nuclear power plants and the efficient use of our land. To achieve these ends the regions’ and the nations’ governing bodies at all levels must provide incentives by appropriate taxation and distribution of finance to develop green transport and housing and other infrastructure.