The following emergency motions have been submitted and chosen for ballot by the Federal Conference Committee: -A Liberal Vision for Digital Rights -Building a Fair Asylum System -Standing up for the most vulnerable in society -Trump's State Visit Two motions selected by a ballot of registered conference attendees will be debated at 09:00 on Tuesday 23rd September (F41). The ballot to select the two motions to be debated is now open and will close at 5pm tomorrow, Saturday 20th September. The motions in full are: Emergency Motion 1: A Liberal Vision for Digital Rights Young Liberals Conference notes: I. The ...
This post was written for Written for Terence Towles Canote's 12th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon. What do we know about Britain in the Fifties? Well for one thing, people couldn't get enough of films about the recent war, could they? Not so fast. Here's the beginning of a film review from Picturegoer (24 October 1953): Hold your groans about yet another war film. This one really is different. The war flashbacks are just the frame for an enthralling postwar story about an ex-soldier who goes to the dogs. What turns a good combat-man into a bitter delinquent? Colonel Jack Hawkins ...
I phoned in to the meeting from Bournemouth, only to find that the judges had already decided that this blog's Headline of the Day Award should go to Kenilworth Hub News.
What makes us different With the Labour government becoming deeply unpopular so quickly and with Reform on the rise, the need for us to expand into being a credible force across more of the country has never been more pressing. We are the party that stands up against populist extremists, willing to call out Donald Trump and willing to take on Nigel Farage. With the pernicious volume of extremist views – aided by Elon Musk's love affair with extremism – there's a crucial role for the Liberal Democrats in being willing and proud to stand against such extremism. While both ...
Editor's note: Jonathan Parry will be discussing his ideas at the Journal of Liberal History Fringe at the Durley Suite in the BIC at 8:15 pm. Liberal Democrats have come to the party by all sorts of routes - some through specific campaigns, others through local activities, through parental encouragement or through education and persuasion. All of us within our broad church, whatever path brought us here, will benefit from Jonathan Parry's short history, 'Liberalism' (Agenda Publishing 2025), which has been written to remind us of the continuities of 'the ideas and visions put forward by Liberal politicians' since the ...
This weekend our Conference in Bournemouth will be full of volunteers. And, for a myriad of very good reasons, tens of thousands of more Lib Dem volunteers will not be in Bournemouth. At Conference a handful of volunteers will receive awards from the Party for their service. And that's right and proper. But all of them need cherishing and recognising as the heroes that they are. There is almost nothing in paid employment that can prepare anyone for working with volunteers. Leadership and team management training in paid employment relates exclusively to working with colleagues who are paid to do ...
Some thirty years ago (according to his famous Diaries) Alan Clark MP, at the time a minister in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, was sent to Truro in Cornwall to beef up support for the Conservative candidate in a by-election caused by the tragic death of local Liberal MP David Penhaligon in a road accident. Clark complained that despite Truro being 'natural' Conservative territory, the candidate he supported was likely to lose (indeed he did). This produced a lament in the Diaries about the way the Liberals got 'dug in' by working hard in constituencies (his visits to his own constituency ...
Five principal authority council by-elections this week and let's start with another example of the Lib Dems coming from a long way back to make a ward a Reform/Lib Dem contest: Trowbridge (Cardiff) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: ➡] RFM: 39.6% (New) [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 23.6% (+15.9) [IMG: 🌹] LAB: 21.3% (-31.1) [IMG: 🌼] PLC: 7.7% (New) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 3.1% (-14.8) [IMG: 🌍] GRN: 2.3% (New) [IMG: 🐉] PRO: 2.2% (-4.5)No PC/G (-12.5) or TUSC (-2.7) as previous.Reform GAIN from Labour.Changes w/ 2022. — Election Maps UK (@electionmaps.uk) 2025-09-19T00:48:03.554Z The Lib Dem candidate here was Rudi Dikty-Daudiyan – thank you. ...
Dundee Community Youth Orchestra is performing along with Caledonian Winds on Saturday 27th September for a night of music and fundraising at Dundee Westgait Church (Roseangle). All welcome! Entry by donation - either on the night or on DCYO's JustGiving page Interval and refreshments Read more about the event and get your tickets at
The BBC report that the Welsh government has been accused of "manipulation" and "electioneering" by rival parties over changes to how NHS waiting times statistics are published. The broadcaster says that the Welsh government has started to publish provisional data a month sooner than "official data", which has a seven-week lag. They add that without the change, the Welsh Labour government could have gone into next year's Senedd election unable to show whether it had hit its targets of bringing the overall waiting list down by 200,000 and reducing two-year waits to zero: Both the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru said ...
