Our Lib Dem candidate for South Cambridgeshire,Sebastian Kindersley, has asked me to sharethis letter of thanks to all who supported theLiberal Democrats in the General Election:

 Thank you for your support in the recent elections.

Thanks to your help, we made some real progress in South Cambridgeshire on 6^th May. In the general election, we reduced the Conservative majority, getting over 20,000 votes on a 2.5% swing. In the elections to South Cambridgeshire District Council, we made a net gain of four seats.

The general election did not give an overall majority to any one party. Nick Clegg had always made clear it would be wrong to keep Gordon Brown in power, even if the two parties could have formed a majority in Parliament. Rather than leaving the Conservatives to form a minority government, leading almost certainly to a further general election, we preferred to enter into a full coalition.

As part of this, there will be a fixed term parliament. David Cameron has given up the right as Prime Minister to call an election when it suits his party, and the next general election will be in May 2015. Meanwhile, a limited reform of the voting system will be put to the British people in a referendum.

We intend this to be the start of a new style of politics, with politicians from more than one party working together to sort out our country’s problems – as happens elsewhere in Europe (including in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

As Nick Clegg said at the end of our special conference in Birmingham, “Promises we were making to people on their doorsteps just a few weeks ago are becoming realities: the income tax threshold is now going to rise to £10,000. That is this Government’s priority, not tax cuts for millionaires”.

Though we will be working with Conservatives in Government, we will be making our case just as strongly in local elections as we seek to increase our representation. We will continue to depend on your support and your help, and will continue to work hard all year round to represent you.

Yours sincerely,

Sebastian

Sebastian Kindersley

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