• Emergency Motion on Health Reforms

    September 04, 2011 8:52 PM

    Dr. Charles West is submitting an Emergency Motion on the NHS reforms. If you would like to support this motion please click here to sign up.

    Reforming the NHS

    Conference notes that the March 2011 Conference clearly rejected several aspects of...

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  • Green Investment Bank amendment

    September 02, 2011 8:54 PM

    Please support this amendment to F38: A Green Stimulus for Economic Recovery, which you will find on pages 43-44 of the Conference Agenda. If you are a conference representative, then please add your ‘signature’ by filling in the form below. Thank you! Note: strong as this motion is, it doesn't...

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  • IT Government Department amendment

    August 30, 2011 8:38 PM

    Please support this amendment to F28: Stimulating Growth in the Digital Economy, which you will find on pages 33-35 of the Conference Agenda. If you are a conference representative, then please add your 'signature' by  filling in the form below.  Thank you!

    Amendment to F28

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  • Internet Free Expression amendment

    August 30, 2011 11:35 AM

    Please support this amendment to F28: Stimulating Growth in the Digital Economy, which you will find on pages 33-35 of the Conference Agenda. If you are a conference representative, then please add your 'signature' by  filling in the form below.  Thank you!

    Amendment to F28

    Lines 28-29 a) Putting in...

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  • Responding to the Riots: Emergency motion to conference

    August 25, 2011 4:11 PM

    Sue Doughty has put together this emergency motion to conference.  It is the most recent version and any amendments which improve but don’t lengthen it should be sent to her on [email protected]. Conference
    • Condemns without reservation  the August riots as unjustified and unjustified criminality
    • Understands the deep trauma caused to...

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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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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