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Safeguarding, not eroding, our civil liberties
April 04, 2012 10:00 AM
Initial reports that the Government wants to change how private communications data can be stored and accessed have rightly caused great concern, not least amongst Liberal Democrat activists and Parliamentarians who all seek to safeguard civil liberties from eros -
2012 Coalition Budget: SLF Response
March 21, 2012 8:42 PM
There are elements of this budget we as social liberals, and of course Liberal Democrats, can be proud of, though the removal of the 50p rate of income tax is something we would clearly never endorse; those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden. But the single state... -
Statement on the 2012 budget: making tax fairer
March 16, 2012 10:19 AM
"With Chancellor George Osborne finalising next week's budget, the Social Liberal Forum reaffirms the Liberal Democrat commitment to fair taxation and urges the government to consider the political implications of cutting taxes on income for the highest earners.Of course we welcome moves to further raise the...Lib Dem Pensions proposals - authored by SLF - are big news in the industry
March 12, 2012 3:41 PM
Janice Turner's pensions motion, passed at Lib Dem Conference in Newcastle Gateshead last weekend, is causing a stir in the pensions industry. In an article last Friday, the Profesional Pensions news site posted an article saying:Liberal Democrat and experienced member-nominated trustee Janice Turner will deliver a policy...
Social Liberal Forum Update
March 12, 2012 1:39 PM
You can download the Kindle version of Prateek Buch’s pamplet on Plan C. It can be found here Also registration for our own SLF conference is now open. Please book early – it will help us enormously with the planning. Date : July 14th Venue: Kings...Triumphs at Lib Dem Spring Conference
March 12, 2012 1:35 PM
Dear all, Thank you for all the hard work you put in over the weekend to make Gateshead another highly successful conference for SLF. Without your support, stewarding, handing out fliers and shaking buckets, we couldn't possible achieve so much in so little time. All of our fringe meetings were...
Liberal Democrat Conference does not support the Health and Social Care Bill
March 12, 2012 8:48 AM
"The Social Liberal Forum welcomes the vote by the Liberal Democrat conference not to support Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill. It is a poorly-conceived, muddled mess that exposes patients to increased risk and lands frontline health professionals with greater levels of bureaucracy and uncertainty. "Liberal Democrat...Evan Harris reacts to the NHS vote at Spring Conference 2012
March 11, 2012 11:40 AM
Responding to the vote (by 314 to 270) of the Liberal Democrat Conference to reject a call from Shirley Williams to support the Health and Social Care , Dr Evan Harris – who proposed the deletion of the lines which called for the party to support the peers in backing...Plan C - A distinctively Lib Dem economic strategy
March 08, 2012 7:39 PM
Plan C has been released today on the Amazon store, in electronic form. It sets out the Social Liberal Forum's proposals for the economy, which we hope to see adopted by the Liberal Democrats as a distinct policy from both Labour and the Tories. Prof. Will Hutton, in...
