The Social Liberal Forum was set up by a number of Liberal Democrat members.
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Chair:
Dr David Hall-Matthews : A Senior Lecturer in International Development at Leeds University, on which he advises the Lib Dems, David is currently chairing a Federal Policy Working Group on Inequality. He wrote a chapter in Reinventing the State on responding to globalisation. He has stood for parliament three times, most recently for Bradford West in 2010.
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Director:
Mark Blackburn (Director): Recently appointed as Director of the SLF, Mark was PPC for Westminster North in the 2010 General Election and has 25 years of business experience which he will use to improve the organisation and raise the profile of the Social Liberal Forum.
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Working with Mark and David to deliver the SLF’s objectives are members of the SLF Executive Team, comprising:
Elected by members in Summer 2010, Our governing council is as follows:
- Prateek Buch
- Theo Butt Philip
- Gareth Epps
- James Graham
- David Hall-Matthews
- Simon Hebditch
- Linda Jack
- Paula Keaveney
- Stephen Knight
- Peter Kunzmann
- Geoffrey Payne
- Geoffrey G J Payne
- Mary Reid
- Amy Rodger
- Naomi Smith
Disclaimer: Membership of the Council does not imply agreement with any or all policy statements made by Social Liberal Forum.
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Given that your movement might have a greater appeal, and a potentially unifying influence with people who share your political ideals but who do not belong to the Lib Dems, why is it a pre prerequisite that people have to be Lib Dem members. Before people start getting worried about attempts to destroy the Lib Dems from within which it could be argued members who subscribe to the “Orange Book” have inadvertently already made a start on, I used to be a Lib Councillor. But I feel not able to rejoin the Lib Dems at this moment in time.
By the way if it is the same Paula Keaveney I used to know when we belonged to the same Youth Movement i am a great admirer.
Hi John, we would like to keep in touch with the Social Liberal diaspora, but as far as SLF membership is concerned we want our members to stay in the party and support our campaigns for social liberalism. The progress we have made on changing the NHS reforms was made possible by members staying in the party and voting at conference for our amendment.
Having joined the SLF when I was a LD party member, I am not clear whether I am still welcome now I’ve quit.
I continue to feel that I am a liberal; but I am appalled by the leadership’s approach to coalition government. The failure to oppose the health bill – which is already doing irreparable harm to the NHS, and which will cost nearly all of us a a great deal in the future – was the last straw for me. I have blogged occasionally about these issues – see e.g. http://peterenglish.blogspot.com/2011/04/can-we-learn-coalition-politics.html.
In the meantime I am no longer a member of the Lib Dem party, and I cannot see myself rejoining it while we have the current leadership. (A Social Liberal party, on the other hand… )
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