Category: Member blogs

Helping refugees on World Refugee Day

Post author By Judy Sarsby
Post date 20 June 2020

When Nicki Winton helped thousands of children to escape persecution in Europe from 1938, he saved the life of a man I later thought of as my god father. So in 2018 when I heard Lord Dubbs, who shared a train with Tommy Leden (my best friend’s father), call for support for Syrian child refugees […]

Witnessing racism in our community

Post author By Elmbridge Liberal Democrats
Post date 16 June 2020

Being the administrator for a Facebook community group is normally quite a thankless task. You are mainly moderating the amount of advertising from local businesses. You rarely have to be the tough police person of the group, removing hateful or rude comments or blocking someone from the group. Since the Covid-19 pandemic these community Facebook […]

Celebrating Pride as a Gay Lib Dem

Post author By Elmbridge Liberal Democrats
Post date 16 June 2020

I first helped the Liberal Democrats at Soho Pride in 2008 when I was approached by a very good friend who is a staunch Liberal Democrat (PPC for Hackney – Dave Raval). He was running a stall for the pride event and getting signatures for a petition on homophobic bullying at schools. As I had […]

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