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Questions from Social Liberal Forum Members to The Rt. Hon Dr Vince Cable, January 2011
March 10, 2011 7:38 PM
Jon asks: The last serious survey on the subject, about 10 years ago, showed that graduates earn on average some £600,000 more than non-graduates over their working career. I don’t think there can be any debate about the fairness of students contributing about 3 to 4 per cent of the... -
SLF amendments to motions
March 09, 2011 11:37 PM
Saturday 9.15 – F3 – Community Futures
At end of Motion F3 (line 85), insert: Conference believes that voluntary work is boosted more effectively by the concrete measures set out in these policies, and by adequate public funding for the charitable and not-for-profit sector when delivering public services, than by... -
SLF Emergency Motion
March 09, 2011 11:23 PM
Action on banks and bonuses
Conference notes a) the importance of a healthy banking system to the future of Britain’s economy b) the regrettable failure of decades of ‘light-touch’ regulation that socialises risk and privatises extraordinary profits at the expense of sustainable investment and growth. c) that Liberal Democrats have... -
SLF fringe meetings at Spring Conference 2011
March 07, 2011 5:12 PM
Conference Diary in brief
Day Time Event Friday 11th 3pm Inequality consultation Friday 11th 8pm Fringe meeting: Is the Health Bill toxic for the NHS and for the Lib Dems? Saturday 12th 1pm Fringe meeting: Q and A with Vince Cable ...Merlin fails to spell the true reform to banking that we deserve
February 11, 2011 10:13 AM
The ‘Project Merlin’ agreement reached yesterday between the government and the UK’s leading banks is to be cautiously welcomed as a necessary but insufficient step towards wholesale reform of the financial services sector. In particular, the SLF welcomes the 15% increase in funds available to small businesses and the...SLF supports capping the cost of credit and ending legal loan sharking
February 02, 2011 4:36 PM
On Thursday February 3rd 2011 MPs will vote on a motion tabled by Stella Creasy MP (Lab, Walthamstow), on whether to introduce caps on lending rates charged for payday loans and other unsecured debt - the Social Liberal Forum supports the motion, as well as the...
Dr. Evan Harris writes in the Guardian, and interviews Nick Clegg, regarding tuition fees
December 12, 2010 12:35 PM
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, and causing a potentially damaging split within the Coalition. The...
An open letter to Nick Clegg regarding inequality, social mobility and fairness
November 27, 2010 2:20 PM
Dear Nick, In delivering the Hugo Young memorial lecture, you raised the challenges that progressives face in times of fiscal constraint. We share your view that these are timely and important issues to discuss. We also found much in your lecture that we agree with. In particular, we...David Hall-Matthews writes in 'Renewal' - Coalition politics, a view from the Liberal Democrats
November 17, 2010 12:36 PM
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 always believed in coalition government – not just out of necessity,...
