Time is getting very tight, but it is still possible to stop Brexit. As Europe waits for real answers on the hundreds of issues to be sorted, Mrs May is wasting time trying unite her quarrelsome cabinet, not putting the fate of our country first

To make matters worse, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party is still cowering behind the sofa rather than being a real opposition.

On 18th June 2018, the Home Office issued a letter to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, regarding Ahmed Hassan's interaction with the police and Home Office, prior to the Parsons Green bombing incident in September 2017. Commenting on the letter, Cllr Hazel Watson (Liberal Democrat, Dorking Hills) said today:

The Lib Dems and I have launched a petition calling for the recent increase in allowances for Conservative Surrey County Councillors to be reversed.

The increase was voted through by Tory Councillors with four new positions of "Deputy Cabinet Member" created, each at a cost to the taxpayer of £10,000, despite the County Council planning millions of pounds of cuts to services over the next year. The Conservatives also voted to reinstate allowances for vice-chairs of committees, contradicting a report from the Independent Remuneration Panel which concluded that allowances for vice-chairs were not necessary.

Ofsted recently published report into Surrey County Council's Children's Services and rated the service as 'inadequate'.

The report state that social workers feel ill-equipped and overworked, resulting in a 'tick-box' system and that large numbers of children detained by Police without a charge due to shortage of emergency local authority accommoation.

The Lib Dems at County Hall have heavily criticised the Conservative administration at Surrey County Council after they awarded themselves thousands of pounds of extra allowances during the last Full Council meeting.

The vote means that 4 new Deputy Cabinet positions will be created, at a cost of £40,000 a year, as well as extra allowances for committee vice-chairs. The Lib Dems opposed these increases and voted against them at County Hall.

Lib Dem Councillor Will Forster became the 45^th Mayor of Woking.

Will Forster was sworn in as Woking's apolitical Mayor on 17^th May, after being elected by Councillors on Woking Borough Council.

Will Forster said, "I was delighted and honoured to have been elected as Woking's 45th Mayor, my hometown. Over the next year I will be attending as many ceremonial, civic and community events as I can during my term of office."

Cllr Ann-Marie Barker and Cllr Deborah Hughes will lead the Liberal Democrat Group on Woking Council in 2018.

Cllr Barker continues her role as leader and Cllr Hughes becomes Deputy Leader. The leadership team was elected with the unanimous support of the Liberal Democrat Group. Cllr Hughes replaces Cllr Will Forster who is Mayor of Woking in 2018/19.

By now you'll have heard the results of the local elections in Woking. Woking Liberal Democrats held the seats we were defending and gained another seat. We fell just 10 votes short of gaining a further seat.

As you know,Woking Council asked people to bring photo ID to vote this time, as part of a national government pilot. The pilots are being formally evaluated by the Electoral Commission on behalf of the Government but we have also been asked to take part in a survey being undertaken by the Political Skills Forum which is looking to gather more informal feedback on people's experiences.

If you have the time, I would really appreciate it if you could fill out the short survey here by Friday 18 May.