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  • On wages, income and employment – would stronger unions solve our economic crisis?

    June 04, 2013 3:00 PM

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  • Liberal Democrat MPs should vote on June 4th to support new investment in clean energy

    June 02, 2013 1:00 AM

    *UPDATE 04/06/13 @ 13.00: further signatories are listed below. Also, Eastleigh MP Mike Thornton is planning to vote for a decarbonisation target* As featured in the Independent on Sunday,

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  • SLF/EMLD race equality conference - live

    June 01, 2013 12:19 PM

    Tweets about "#ldraceconf" !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
  • The next coalition negotiations

    May 28, 2013 9:00 AM

    Former SDP/Liberal Democrat but now Blairite Labour Peer Andrew Adonis has written a book, "Five days in May," in which he describes, from the Labour Party perspective, the hapless discussions with his former party on the remote  possibility of a Lib-lab coalition  after the 2010 election. Based on his experience of the total unpreparedness of the Labour Party for such discussions, he very sensibly suggests that all parties should prepare their positions for negotiation in the event that th

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  • Guardian, 23/02/13 - does your political party listen to you?

    May 24, 2013 10:29 AM

    SLF Council member Mathew Hulbert told The Guardian about being listened to as a Liberal Democrat activist:
    [W]e remain the most democratic political party. Our annual conferences – and, therefore, us, the grassroots members and activists – continue to make party policy and, a good deal of the time, this is is what forms government policy... ...[I]f I'm honest, the gap between ordinary members and the party leadership/ministers appears to be growing. The coalition has force

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  • On wages, income and employment

    May 22, 2013 9:07 AM

    Rejoice! There was

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  • Do this or the kitten gets it ! Why “taming the Tories” won’t work

    May 21, 2013 4:00 PM

    Over the last few months, Lib Dem activists have been increasingly urged to emphasise the things we are stopping the Conservatives doing.  We are told to make a virtue out of being the brakes, or at least the gears, that prevent full speed, full scale right-wingery. It may be true.  The problem though is that as a message this is rubbish. I don’t mean that it’s not a good idea to restrain the Tories.  Of course it is. I don’t mean that activists don’t like to hear this.  Of course they do. Bu

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  • Invest today, grow tomorrow - NIESR research shows part of the way forward

    May 15, 2013 2:38 PM

    That the UK economy

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  • Race equality – a new Liberal Democrat approach: SLF/EMLD Conference

    May 14, 2013 10:53 AM

    *UPDATE 10/06/13 - you can read reaction to this successful conference here - more extensive write-up to follow! This article first appeared at Lib Dem Voice - tickets for the conference referred to can be booked at 

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