Real change that works for you.

The two old parties have been slugging it out for decades. At long last we have a chance to change things at the election.

Don’t settle for low politics and broken promises: be more demanding. Set your sights on the country you want for your children and your grandchildren and use your vote to make it happen.

Only the Welsh Liberal Democrats have the big ideas for real changes in the way our country works to make it fair.

Only we will shake up the tax system to put £700 pounds back in the pockets of 28,000 people in Newport East and Severnside, while 5,800 people earning less than £10,000 a year will pay no tax at all.

Only we will break up the banks and only we will kick-start an economy based on building things again because we have the ideas we need to create a sustainable economy.

Only the Liberal Democrats will invest in our schools to give every child, no matter what their background, a fair start in life.

A strong vote for the Liberal Democrats means the end of red-blue, blue-red politics. It means the beginning of real change that works for you.

Ed Townsend has lived in Newport for the last 20 years, is deputy leader of Newport City Council and a past president of Newport and Gwent Chamber of Commerce.

He is campaigning for an end to the Severn crossing tolls and for an early start on a new hospital to replace the outdated and beleaguered Royal Gwent.