Archive for Conference
What to watch out for at Liberal Democrat conference
Many Liberal Democrats will no doubt wish that fixing the nation’s finances would be as easy as fixing their own party’s finances. For flicking through the details of the reports and motions published ahead of the party’s September conference in Birmingham you find a positive financial tale for the party. 2010 may have seen a [...]
Committee reports to Liberal Democrat conference, Autumn 2011
Here they are, with quite a lot of detail people may find interesting – such as on the party HQ move, changes in the Campaigns Department, the introduction of VAN and the relatively healthy party finances (the surplus this year will all but cancel out last year’s deficit): Reports to Liberal Democrat Autumn 2011 Conference
Thank you: two motions submitted, two motions accepted for debate
Both the motion on Lords reform and the one on the party’s Federal Appeals Panel I helped organise have been chosen by the Federal Conference Committee to be debated at our autumn conference. The Lords reform one is all about backing the idea of elections, whilst the Appeals Panel one is a constitutional amendment to [...]
Motions to conference: House of Lords and Federal Appeals Panel
I suspect one of these topics is likely to be of wider interest than the other… but if you are interested in either putting a motion to conference about Lords reform (it’s a good thing and it’s a shame that so many Lib Dem peers are opposed to elections) or the Federal Appeals Panel (whose [...]
Watch Nick Clegg's conference speech in full
Courtesy of Jonathan Wallace comes a video of Nick Clegg’s conference speech in Sheffield: If you prefer reading to watching, there is also a full transcript of Nick Clegg’s conference speech in the post I did for Lib Dem Voice about it at the weekend. Further thoughts on the speech and more analysis of what [...]
Special conference edition of my email newsletter is out
As we’ve just had the Liberal Democrat spring conference in Sheffield, I’ve done a special mid-month edition of my email newsletter to report on what happened and what party members were saying. You can read it here. In an experiment in publicising the existence of the newsletter further, I’ve tried setting up a Facebook page [...]
Nick Clegg’s conference speech
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, wearing a Yes To Fairer Votes badge, closed the party’s Sheffield conference with a return to his theme of Alarm Clock Britain: We’re on the side of the people I call Alarm Clock Britain. On the side of everyone who wants to get up and get on. People who, unlike the [...]
The party strategy debate: rolling highlights
Note: If you’re catching up with this post after it was published, read it from the bottom up. Final result – both amendment and motion passed overwhelmingly. The overall tenor of the debate was more good natured than might have been expected – people did not take the opportunity to express any unhappiness in strident [...]
