It’s just six weeks until Lib Dems gather in Brighton for our Autumn Conference. Yesterday afternoon, the Conference agenda came out.
Over the four days we will see debates on such subjects as:
- Ending Violence against women and girls
- Mortality of children in temporary accommodation
- Maternity care
- Party strategy
- Defending Democracy
- Food security
- Water companies
- AI
- Making music matter
- Rural and coastal education
There will be keynote speeches from:
- Jane Dodds
- Alex Cole-Hamilton
- Max Wilkinson
- Munira Wilson]
- Daisy Cooper
- Cllr Lisa Spivey
- Al Pinkerton
- And, of course Ed Davey
You can read the text of all the motions and find out all you need to know about Conference here.
If you feel that a motion is mostly ok but missing a key point, or you can think of a better way to deal with the problem it is trying to solve, you can draft and submit an amendment with the support of other party members. You can obtain drafting advice for amendments up until 24 August and the deadline is Monday 7 September. There’s more information here.
You can read all the Reports to Conference from Committees and the Parliamentary parties here.
Let’s get talking on here about this year’s conference motions. Let us know what you think!
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5 Comments
I really wish Lib Dem Voice had publicised the deadline for early (and cheaper) registration to conference. I think a lot of members will be surprised by the registration rates that now exist. Apologies if I missed any posts by Lib Dem Voice -but I don’t think I did.
We usually do. Apologies if we missed it this year.
Great agenda, including party strategy and defending democracy. Especially pleased to see debate about ending violence against women and girls as this is a huge issue, escalating, and with such poor care for victims (honoured to be on the Victims of Crime policy working group). Also pleased to see my District Councillor, Lisa Spivey, is one of the keynote speakers!
Picking up Mark’s point, because I don’t think it’s a small one. Conference is where members top up the energy and motivation that carries both local and national party through the year, so the size of the room genuinely matters. I paid £225 as a late registration, and for a lot of members that plus travel and a Brighton hotel in September is simply out of reach. There are concessions and there’s the Access Fund, but people often don’t use them and quietly skip conference instead. Worth noting too that the Access Fund closed to applications on 1 July, before the agenda came out, and that it doesn’t cover the ticket at all. There’s also a knock-on nobody sees: when you pay the late rate you’re far less likely to add to the Access Fund at checkout, because it already feels like a lot. Could LDV run a short piece on what’s still available – concessionary and day passes, sharing rooms, late Access Fund applications? Getting more members into that hall is the cheapest way to make this conference feel like a rally.
I’ve not looked at the agenda in depth but although it seems most worthy I saw little on the economy, taxes and money. Resources are not sufficient but they are necessary to solve so many problems.
My vision of the UK currently is that we are trying to live a middle class lifestyle on a working class income. Whether you’re talking about provision of homes, crime prevention (including work with those in and just released from prison). foreign aid, environmental protection, so many of today’s pressing problems come back to underfunding. Follow the money! Getting the economy working better underlies so much.