http://socialliberal.net Mon, 21 May 2012 19:43:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://socialliberal.net/2011/11/01/debating-plan-b/ http://socialliberal.net/2011/11/01/debating-plan-b/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:04:23 +0000 James Graham http://socialliberal.net/?p=1351 Report by Prateek Buch As detailed in a letter to the Observer, the campaigns group Compass has helped piece together a Plan B to boost the stalling economy, having declared the Government’s Plan A to have failed. I was at the … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2011/11/01/debating-plan-b/feed/ 5 http://socialliberal.net/2011/10/03/slf-fringe-programme-at-lib-dem-conference-september-2011/ http://socialliberal.net/2011/10/03/slf-fringe-programme-at-lib-dem-conference-september-2011/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:26:32 +0000 prateekbuch http://socialliberal.net/?p=1311 Below are reports from many of our fringe meetings at the recent Lib Dem conference in Birmingham – more to follow! The SLF’s fringe programme at this year’s Lib Dem conference got off to an excellent start, with the panel … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2011/10/03/slf-fringe-programme-at-lib-dem-conference-september-2011/feed/ 0 http://socialliberal.net/2011/09/26/what-sort-of-liberal-is-nick-clegg/ http://socialliberal.net/2011/09/26/what-sort-of-liberal-is-nick-clegg/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:46:55 +0000 Maryreid http://socialliberal.net/?p=1307 Mark Pack writes: The new (and in fact only) biography of Nick Clegg is very much a book of two halves. The first – a fascinating tale of Nick’s multinational family; the second – a fairly standard recount of some … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2011/09/26/what-sort-of-liberal-is-nick-clegg/feed/ 5 http://socialliberal.net/2011/09/23/a-policy-motion-on-policy-motions/ http://socialliberal.net/2011/09/23/a-policy-motion-on-policy-motions/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:57:29 +0000 Maryreid http://socialliberal.net/?p=1304 ‘The Lib Dem Conference is a recognisably democratic event in a sense that the other conferences can no longer claim to be. Policies are proposed, amended, debated and voted on in an impeccable manner’. (Martin Kettle, ‘The Guardian’, 18/09/09) Conference … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2011/09/23/a-policy-motion-on-policy-motions/feed/ 2 http://socialliberal.net/2011/08/21/responding-to-the-riots/ http://socialliberal.net/2011/08/21/responding-to-the-riots/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:36:09 +0000 Maryreid http://socialliberal.net/?p=1190 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 … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2011/08/21/responding-to-the-riots/feed/ 1 http://socialliberal.net/2011/04/05/lib-dems-stand-strong-against-damaging-nhs-changes/ http://socialliberal.net/2011/04/05/lib-dems-stand-strong-against-damaging-nhs-changes/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:47:08 +0000 Maryreid http://socialliberal.net/?p=946 The article by Dr Evan Harris was published in the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ section on 4th April 2011. Our determination to amend the health bill demonstrates the value of the junior coalition partner’s democratic processes There have been a … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2011/04/05/lib-dems-stand-strong-against-damaging-nhs-changes/feed/ 5 http://socialliberal.net/2010/12/12/dr-evan-harris-writes-in-the-guardian-and-interviews-nick-clegg-regarding-tuition-fees/ http://socialliberal.net/2010/12/12/dr-evan-harris-writes-in-the-guardian-and-interviews-nick-clegg-regarding-tuition-fees/#comments Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:35:05 +0000 prateekbuch http://socialliberal.net/?p=668 There is little doubt that it has been a difficult week for Liberal Democrats; our Parliamentary party faced the choice between backing a rise in university tuition fees that the majority of Lib Dem voters and members do not support, … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2010/12/12/dr-evan-harris-writes-in-the-guardian-and-interviews-nick-clegg-regarding-tuition-fees/feed/ 4 http://socialliberal.net/2010/11/17/david-hall-matthews-writes-in-renewal-coalition-politics-a-view-from-the-liberal-democrats/ http://socialliberal.net/2010/11/17/david-hall-matthews-writes-in-renewal-coalition-politics-a-view-from-the-liberal-democrats/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:36:41 +0000 prateekbuch http://socialliberal.net/?p=634 The Autumn 2010 edition of Renewal – a journal of social democracy – sees the Chair of the Social Liberal Forum David Hall-Matthews writing about the formation of the Coalition government from a Lib Dem perspective. The Liberal Democrats have … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2010/11/17/david-hall-matthews-writes-in-renewal-coalition-politics-a-view-from-the-liberal-democrats/feed/ 2 http://socialliberal.net/2010/10/05/social-liberal-forum-at-conference-part-i-fairness-in-a-time-of-austerity/ http://socialliberal.net/2010/10/05/social-liberal-forum-at-conference-part-i-fairness-in-a-time-of-austerity/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:16:57 +0000 prateekbuch http://socialliberal.net/?p=517 The centrepiece of Social Liberal Forum’s Conference programme was the debate on Motion F34: Ensuring Fairness in a time of Austerity. Below are the highlights from the excellent discussion that the Motion inspired – full versions of the speeches can … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2010/10/05/social-liberal-forum-at-conference-part-i-fairness-in-a-time-of-austerity/feed/ 1 http://socialliberal.net/2010/05/22/speech-to-special-conference-debate/ http://socialliberal.net/2010/05/22/speech-to-special-conference-debate/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 18:57:23 +0000 David Hall-Matthews http://socialliberal.net/?p=415 On Friday 7 May, without pausing for sleep, the Social Liberal Forum started lobbying for a Progressive Alliance – or, failing that, for a Grand Alliance of all parties. It was soon clear that that was what the vast majority … Continue reading →

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