{"pk":5011,"title":"Election called for 6th May","description":"\"I'll vote for a party that will scrap student fees\" - Hannah, 3rd Year NatSci, Sidney Sussex College\r\n\r\nStudents are registered to vote by their college. You have two votes: one for the general election and one for the city council elections.\r\n\r\nJulian Huppert, a Director of Studies for Natural Sciences at Clare College, is the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Cambridge.\r\n\r\nJulian is hoping to be elected to take over from David Howarth, a Cambridge Law fellow, who has decided to return to academic life after five years as local MP.\r\n\r\nAbout Julian...\r\nJulian has lived in Cambridge since he was three months old. he studied at Trinity College before becoming a Clare fellow.\r\n* Julian's research at the Cavendish Laboratory is on the structure of DNA\r\n* He is a member of the national council of the pressure group Liberty.\r\n* Julian was a Councillor in Cambridge and led the Lib Dems on the County Council from 2003-2007.\r\n* In his free time, Julian is a keep cyclist and enjoys cooking.\r\n\r\n5 good reasons to vote Lib Dem\r\n\r\n1 The Lib Dems would scrap all student tuition fees\r\nThe Lib Dems have a fully costed plan to scrap tuition fees and make sure universities don't lose out. Final year fees would go straightaway and all fees would be scrapped after six years.\r\n\r\n2 Lib Dems would take real action on climate change\r\nWe want a zero carbon Britain by 2050. We would invest in rail instead of encouraging polluting roads and runways. We would make energy efficiency a priority and would get public buildings properly insulated.\r\n\r\n3 The Lib Dems would protect our civil liberties\r\nThe Lib Dems will continue to fight to protect out hard-won liberties. We will scrap ID cards and the national identity database. We will stop the DNA of innocent people being kept by the police.\r\n\r\n4 Lib Dems would create high-tech green jobs for graduates\r\nWe would invest in renewable technologies. This would create jobs in high-tech firms developing products to cut carbon emissions.\r\n\r\n5 The Lib Dems want to reform our democracy ot make it fair\r\nThe Lib Dems want huge changes to the way Britain's political system works. We would abolish safe seats, bring in a fair voting system and enable people to remove corrupt MPs.\r\n\r\nGet involved\r\nHelp our campaign by:\r\n* putting up a poster\r\n* delivering leaflets\r\n* Posting us to your friends on facebook\r\n\r\ncontact@julianhuppert.org.uk\r\nwww.juianhuppert.org.uk\r\nhttp://tinyurl.com/helpcsld\r\n\r\nFacebook\r\nAdd Julian Huppert as a friend or become a fan of Cambridge Student Liberal Democrats\r\nText 07860 409 545 to find out more\r\n\r\nReform the system\r\n\r\nBritain's outdated electoral system means that there are hundreds of safe seats and hundreds of marginal seats.\r\nMany MPs in the safe seats were the ones guilty of fiddling their expenses.\r\nLibs Dems want to end this 'job for life' culture of safe seats and introduce proportional representation - a fair voting system where everyone's vote counts.\r\nLib Dems want to sweep away the unfair 'First past the post' system where only votes for the top contenders in marginal seats like Cambridge can affect the result.\r\nHere is the battle between the Lib Dems and Labour. The Conservatives and Greens come along way behind in third and fourth.\r\n\r\nStudents' votes will decide Cambridge result on 6th May\r\nVotes cast in Cambridge General Election 2005\r\nLib Dem: 44%\r\nLabour: 34%\r\nCon: Just 17%\r\nGreen: 3%\r\n\r\n\"I'll use my vote to protect our civil liberties\" - Maya, 1st year NatSci, Murray Edwards College\r\n\"I want my vote to mean real action on climate change\" - Joe, 4th year SPS, Homerton College\r\n\r\nPublished and promoted by K Wilkins on behalf of Julian Huppert and the Liberal Democrats and printed by Glisson Printers Ltd, all of 16 Cygnet Court, Swann Road, Cambridge.","party":{"party_id":"party:90","party_name":"Liberal Democrats"},"people":[],"images":[{"image":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/leaflets/1b239e4cf0c10a85245046ecd73b6297.jpg","image_type":null},{"image":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/leaflets/a9793503c54e336e5d9732cddafb3dcc.jpg","image_type":null}],"first_page_thumb":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/thumbs/350/leaflets/1b239e4cf0c10a85245046ecd73b6297.png","date_uploaded":"2010-05-04T16:56:23+01:00","date_delivered":"2010-04-20T00:00:00+01:00","status":"live"}