Your chance to shape Liberal Democrat policy in the North West comes this February with our Regional Spring Conference in Blackpool.
The regional policy committee welcome motion submissions whether fully fleshed-out motion texts, or an expression of a clear idea that they can help you to form into the right wording for a conference motion.
Last Autumn’s conference included debates on hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) and the government’s localism agenda.
Bookings are now open for our Regional Spring Conference in Blackpool on Saturday, February 25th. It will be a campaigning conference ahead of the Local Elections which take place across most of the region in May.
Registration forms are included in the all-member North West Campaigner mailing, landing on doormats this week.
There is a discounted rate for early bookings so get those registrations in fast
You can book by post or online via PayPal.
The conference page of this website carries all the latest news about the conference.
New chair Jo
Our new regional exec team takes charge from today – as with most Lib Dem organisations and local parties across the country.
Our new Chair is Jo Crotty, with a new Fundraising Officer Sarah Harding.
The rest of the team looks familiar as those are the two Officer positions changing hands following the regional party internal elections in October.
For details of the new exec see the report on the election results.
The latest issue of our North West Lib Dem membership newsletter the NW Campaigner is out now and landing on doormats across the region.
With news from byelections around the region, and of more Lib Dem policies being delivered as part of the Coalition Government, it also has diary details of upcoming events around the North West and our new Regional Executive team. And there’s lots of information about Connect, the new Lib Dem campaign software that is the successor to EARS.
Nick Clegg: An Open Society
The Deputy Prime Minister delivered a speech at Westminster Methodist Central Hall this morning.
First, let me thank Demos and the Open Society Foundation for inviting to me to speak. I can think of no better moment to talk about the open society, and the urgent need to rally to its defence.
The values of the open society – social mobility; political pluralism; civil liberties; democracy; internationalism – are the source of my liberalism. And reflecting on the events of the last year, it is clear to me that they have rarely been more important than they are today. Continue reading
