I have just travelled down after spending three days working on the city council joint budget. The size of cutbacks for Liverpool is of order 28% - the worst in the country on a par with Manchester’s 25% cutback.

We have an all party budget working party but the two other opposition groups on the council have abrogated their responsibility (Lib Dems and Greens).

This is relevant as I question how many schools, libraries, leisure centre’s and children’s centres would we not have to shut if we were not subsidizing the EU with £45 million of our taxes each and every day.

My party is the Liberal Party - we were created from the nonconformist tradition with a healthy disregard for authority, a belief in individual freedom, democratic decision making, conscience and part of our movement motivated by opposition to the corn laws which forced up food prices. Today what is Liberal about an EU with thousands of tariffs forcing up food and other costs and enforcing poverty in the third world? Absolutely nothing!

The Prime Minister is talking to the utility companies about cutting costs. If he wants to reduce our cost of living stop talking to the EU - give us the right to leave.

On the way down George Osborne was commenting on Radio on the Greek financial crisis and saying another sticking plaster would not work, he is right! Without doubt a European currency without central political and economic control will not work.

The only solution is more flexibility - you can not force diverse countries into a single state without dramatic and dysfunctional consequences.

Europe has always been diverse: diverse economic structures, diverse religious beliefs, diverse political systems. Our strength is diversity.

Uniformity will strangle Europe’s strengths. Europe’s strength has always been its dynamism a consequence of our diversity.

At the last General Election all three main parties pledged to give us a vote on the constitution. They tagged a few extra clauses and called it a Treaty. I challenge those who claim to be of a Liberal Tradition, Nick Clegg and his LibDems, rather than vote to give us the vote as they pledged to - preferred to mince out of parliament - that was an act of utter cowardice.

The fact we were denied our vote is a disgrace to Democracy and of Justice.

It is unusual for opposition politicians to praise a ruling administration, as a Liberal I have never had a problem about this.

NATO and the coalition got it right overthrowing a delusional, benign dictatorship in Libya and giving the people the right to choose their future.

Can Nato declare a No Fly zone over Westminster until we are given the right to vote for our country’s future.

Today we are a liberation movement fighting for the right to determine our countries future. It belongs to the people not just dishonest politicians who pledge one thing and then vote to the contrary.