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Opinion: Youth Careerism – A Problem or an Opportunity?

I’m currently sat at the pub with fellow young Liberals, young Labourites and young Conservatives. Now, we all face the same problem: how do we engage with voters? The young Labourites and the young Conservatives are bankrolled to success, they have media and policy training and, more importantly, they are made to be the future leaders of their party. But what do young Liberals get?

For a long time the Liberal Democrats has been a party that has seemed to make its young members campaign fodder, instead of supporting their personal development. Lib Dem members are fantastic in supporting young people, …

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  • Caron LindsayCaron Lindsay
    Thank you, Tom!...
  • Meg Thomas
    I agree with Sam it is a much wider and insidious problem than cannot be solved by superb services and policies alone. It goes back to how we educate young peop...
  • Peter Davies
    @Simon "The costs of HS2 are indeed outgrageous – but as a few minutes ressearch would show , have little to do with fraud and a lot to do with the utter madn...
  • Judy Abel
    @Hywel fair point although second class letters are so slow that I would prefer the French model!...
  • Judy Abel
    @Ynys I stand corrected but at least I got the right playwright and the right play!...