J. Roberts
Donnachadh McCarthy is a former vice-chair of the Liberal Democrat Federal Executive. He will be speaking about his forthcoming book The Prostitute State at the Liberal Left fringe on Saturday 8th March at 8pm, room 5 in the Novotel. Ruth Bright is chairing, David Ward MP and Linda Jack will also be on the panel….
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With the publication of the conference agenda yesterday the most striking discovery was that Nick Clegg appears to be staking his leadership on the Economy Motion (F19). It is unprecedented in the history of the Lib Dems for a leader to submit and summate on a motion. The last time a leader intervened in a…
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Dear Dr Cable, I was present when you gave your presentation of the Social Liberal Forum in Manchester on Saturday. Thank you for that presentation – with much of which I wholly concurred. We do need to re-balance the economy in the direction you pointed to and you are quite right to advocate a proactive…
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A. T. writes: The Conservatives in government have decided that their main target for cuts is what they call “welfare”. (Social security for working-aged people, not state pensions, education or the NHS.) In other words, the pillar of the Welfare State that Liberals were responsible for from the 1940’s. George Osborne’s comments, originally in August…
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The electoral consequences of joining the Coalition in 2010 have now become clear even to its cheerleaders.
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