• Social Liberals at the Green Party Conference

    January 04, 2019 1:56 PM

    SLF Council member Paul Pettinger writes about his experience of attending Green Party conference on behalf of the SLF:

    In October 2018, the SLF had a stall at the Green Party of England and Wales’ annual conference in Bristol for the first time.

    Relations between Lib Dems and Greens have...

  • The UK's chaotic politics: How the Lib Dems could contribute to a solution

    October 12, 2018 11:41 AM

    “Massive money laundering  and a major tax haven; failing police effectiveness including official as well as unlicensed corruption; insufficiency of judges, too few prosecutions that are often ill-prepared; insanitary over-crowded prisons with endemic drug-taking and rioting; use of drug-pusher children; and epidemic of teenage knife crime; foreign assassins;...

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  • Ian Kearns: I left Labour for the Lib Dems because Jeremy Corbyn isn't radical enough

    September 21, 2018 1:08 PM

    Ian Kearns is the former Deputy Director of the IPPR thinktank and an author. He made a speech at this year's Lib Dem autumn conference which is well worth reading in which he talked about why he had left Labour for the Liberal Democrats.

    He has also written in the Independent on...

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  • SLF events at Lib Dem Conference

    August 20, 2018 1:11 PM

    For Liberal Democrat autumn conference this year in Brighton, the SLF are running an exciting programme of fringe events as well as our Annual Dinner with this year's guest speaker Lucy Salek. Read on for more details.

    Conference Dinner with Lucy Salek

    Friday, 14 September...

  • SLF Council Election Results 2018

    August 17, 2018 3:16 PM

    Nominations for SLF Council closed on Saturday 4th August. By an amazing coincidence and without any strong-arming whatsoever there were exactly 20 candidates for 20 places on the Council. As such all candidates were automatically elected.

    The new Council for the next two-year period is:

    My passion for bold and radical Liberalism reaffirmed, as my time as SLF Chair comes to its end

    July 22, 2018 9:09 PM

    Last September, Paddy Ashdown said that since the coalition, the Lib Dems had not managed to have even “one big, dangerous idea”.  He said in a blog for Lib Dem Voice:

    Unless we are prepared to be realistic about where we are, return to being radical about what we...

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  • Nominations Now Open for Biennial SLF Council Elections 2018

    July 03, 2018 12:35 PM

    Nominations are now open for the biennial election to the SLF Council. The Council is the governing body of the SLF and meets about 5 times a year, currently in Birmingham. SLF will pay travel expenses to meetings on application to the Treasurer.

    Nominations can be made by...

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  • The inspiration for European integration is part of British history too

    July 02, 2018 12:38 PM

    Two years on from the EU referendum and Walter Benjamin’s haunting observation that “the very past itself is at stake” seems appropriate.

    What sort of future Britain will have depends, to a large extent, on how a working majority of voters and politicians understand her past. For, as the UK’s...

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  • Kate Pickett to speak at SLF Conference

    June 22, 2018 1:21 PM

    The Social Liberal Forum exists and campaigns to create a society where everyone has access to the wealth, power and opportunity to enable us all to lead full and rewarding lives, unfettered by social hardship.  We speak for and promote a vision for social justice.  So we are thrilled to...

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