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Responding to the Riots
August 21, 2011 1:36 PM
Since the riots we have seen extreme views from right and left of the commentary spectrum but somehow they don’t meet in the middle. Dreadful events which took place. Families, organisations and businesses suffered enormously with desperately sad outcomes. While politicians led by Boris Johnson flew home hoping to give the appearance of taking charge, it was the police who did a superb job, co-ordinating nationally to bring the situation under control. Calls were made to censor or even shut -
Social Liberal Forum AGM 2011 Minutes
August 16, 2011 1:19 PM
Social Liberal Forum held its AGM on Saturday 13th August in Birmingham. You can download the following documents in pdf format: AGM Minutes 13th August 2011 Accounts 2011 -
Sign the petition to keep the death penalty banned
August 04, 2011 5:55 PM
Last week, the hitherto libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes announced that he was launching a petition on the new government e-petitions website to reinstate the right of the state to execute its citizens. The rightwing media leapt on the story, giving him acres of promotional copy. However on the day of the e-petitions launch, today, things didn't go entirely to plan. At the current time of writing, while Guido has managed to persuade 1,040 people to sign his -
Report on the Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) Meeting in Glasgow on 25 June
June 27, 2011 5:41 PM
A small but vocal group of Lib Dem activists came together last Saturday in Glasgow to debate the current state of and prospects for the Party in Scotland. Although mostly drawn from Glasgow and the West of Scotland members travelled from as far afield as Irvine, Bo’ness, Edinburgh and the North of England. -
Blogging about the SLF Conference
June 20, 2011 10:53 PM
Bloggers have been writing up their impressions of the SLF Conference on 18th June. Here is a selection of them. Please add any that have been overlooked in the comments below.- Brian Robson: Vince on Northern Rock : “It would be good if we could get a mutual buyer”
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Time to review student funding?
June 07, 2011 10:40 AM
After all the pain the Lib Dems went through with the student funding policy, the least we could expect is that it would do what it said on the tin.
But that has turned out not to be the case. At the time when they were debated in the Commons, we were told to expect to see the aver
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Guest post: How do you pick an expert? by Mark Pack
June 06, 2011 2:22 PM
You need an expert. What do you do? Plenty of
different ways of going about finding one, I’m sure.
But I bet you don’t dig out
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Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) Meeting in Glasgow on 25 June
May 30, 2011 7:05 PM
Following our successful fringe meeting at the Scottish Spring Conference in Perth, the Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) will hold a further meeting in Glasgow. The venue is Room 9 in Partick Burgh Hall, from 10.30am to 12.30pm on Saturday 25 June. The meeting will be open to all card-carrying Liberal Democrats but we obviously hope that a high percentage of SLF members will attend. The aim of the meeting is to canvass opinion as to how best to progress social liberal objectives within the Sco -
Press release: Social Liberal Forum Summer Conference
May 23, 2011 9:11 AM
Liberalism, Equality and the State
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Vince Cable, Lee Chalmers, Evan Harris, Simon Hebditch, Simon Hughes,Chris Huhne, Will Hutton, Neal Lawson, Alex Marsh, Mark Pack, Ed Randell, Alexis Rowell, Naomi Smith, Claire Tyler, Halina Ward
The Social Liberal Forum are proud to announce their first national conference at City University in London. The SLF successfully presented a motion to the Liberal Democrat spring conference challenging the government’s planned NHS reforms. The mot
