The Social Liberal Forum exists to foster debate within and beyond the Liberal Democrats, with the aim of developing social liberal solutions and approaches which reflect these principles and which find popular support.
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- Can we build a progressive con...
Lowy Suite, Best Western Brighton H...
30 September at 12:45 - Overcoming political barriers ...
Connaught 1, Connaught Hotel
21 September at 20:15 - The Liberal Democrat Manifesto
Room P, Portcullis House, Westminst...
16 June at 07:30
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- Social Liberal Forum Newsletter 09 November 21:10
- Manifesto Priorities – A Statement from the Social Liberal Forum Executive 09 November 20:28
- Congratulations to Centre Forum 21 October 18:52
Sorry we’ve been quiet for the last few weeks – for reasons that will become apparent below. We had a tremendously successful conference season and would like to welcome everyone who signed up to this newsletter at one or other of our fringe meetings. CO...
As the Liberal Democrats move towards finalizing the party’s manifesto, The Social Liberal Forum sets out the key principles that we believe should be the basis for formulating tax policy and spending commitments: The party should commit itself to the goal of reducing income inequality over the n...
Belated congratulations to Centre Forum, and in particular Giles Wilkes, for winning Prospect Magazines’ Think Tank Publication of the Year Award for A Balancing Act: Fair Solutions to the Modern Debt Crisis. One of the many things I meant to do this summer was to write a review of this pamphlet. ...
Guest article by Geoffrey G J Payne Soon after I joined the Liberal party in 1983 I discovered something that surprised me. Many of the best Liberals were not members of the party, and some were even members of other parties. This presented both a challenge and an opportunity...
Social Liberal Forum Secretary James Graham and Chair of Compass Neal Lawson have an article in Tuesday’s Guardian calling for a “coalition of progressive ideas” between social liberals and liberal socialists within the Liberal Democrats, Labour and more widely. Prog...
Hope you had a good summer. With the conference season now in full sway, we just wanted to let you know about the Social Liberal Forum’s own plans next week. Please do come to our fringe meeting next Monday. PA...
Social Liberal Forum
A joint fringe meeting with Compass at the Labour Party Conference.
Speakers: Neal Lawson, Evan Harris MP
Time:Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:45
Location:Lowy Suite, Best Western Brighton Hotel
Social Liberal Forum The SLF website is temporarily down due to a security issue. Apologies for the inconvenience - we hope to have it up and running again soon. In the meantime, why not join our new social network?
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The Social Liberal Forum exists develop social liberal solutions and approaches which reflect these principles.
I read The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better whilst watching the last two seasons of The Wire and so Chris Grayling’s claims last week that parts of the UK were beginning to resemble the Baltimore portrayed in that TV series did cause me to smile wryly. ...
Social Liberal Forum This event may be of interest...
Special guest speakers; Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Neil Stockley
Location:Clapton, London
Time:Sunday, 13 September 2009 15:00
Social Liberal Forum Our fringe at Bournemouth Conference. Please come - and help spread the word!
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A joint Social Liberal Forum and Compass fringe with Steve Webb MP and Neal Lawson
By Duncan Brack This article was originally published in Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century. We are grateful to Duncan for allowing us to reproduce this article. Visit the Methuen website to purchase the latest edition of this book for the discount price of £10....
Yesterday, Health Secretary Andy Burnham wrote an article for the Guardian aiming to set out the clear blue water between Labour and the Conservatives on the National Health Service. In doing so, he inadvertantly demonstrated quite how vapid Labour’s vision for the NHS really is. ...
By Richard S. Grayson This article was originally published in Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century. We are grateful to Richard for allowing us to reproduce this article...
Ever since the collapse of Northern Rock, Vince Cable has led the way in support of demanding an end to excessive pay and bonuses for greedy bankers who are more interested in short term profit than t...
