The Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto for the Essex County Council election on 5 May 2005. It sets out ten reasons to vote Liberal Democrat as the only credible alternative to the current Conservative administration.

The Liberal Democrats' manifesto is based on three important values - Freedom, Fairness, Trust.

Lib Dem Group Leader Ken Jones commented

"Freedom for everybody to be able to make independent choices about how they live their life; fairness in the provision of services and fairness for the distribution of burden to provide those services; trust in the administration."

You can download the manifesto from the party's Essex web site.