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Caron Lindsay

Liberal Democrats in the New Year Honours list

By Caron Lindsay | Tue 31st December 2013 - 8:24 am

While we have been preparing our own Liberal Democrat Stars of 2013 (you can still submit your nominations), the Government has published its own list of recipients of New Year Honours list. For the first time ever, surprisingly since women make up more than half the population, they make up a slight majority of this list. It really might be time, though, for them to change the outdated way they list women. Married women are listed as their first names, then Mrs surname. Others have the designation Ms.  This is not the case for men, who are simply listed …

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Social Liberal Forum Scotland gets outside its comfort zone

By Norman Fraser | Wed 3rd July 2013 - 11:29 am

SLF Scotland 2013 Robert and NormanThe Social Liberal Forum Scottish Conference took place in Glasgow last Saturday, 29 June.  This was our third conference since the Scottish organisation was set up in 2010.  In previous years we have mainly relied on our own resources, inviting as speakers politicians and academics from the Liberal Democrat membership in the West of Scotland.  This year we moved out of our comfort zone and invited speakers from outside organisations, most notably from The Poverty Alliance and YesScotland, together with the Scottish Convener Craig Harrow.  The …

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Good news from Chelmsford: Liberal Democrat Graham Pooley wins Council by-election

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 20th February 2013 - 12:30 pm

Chelmsford winYou would think Eastleigh was the only by-election in the world at the moment, but yesterday Liberal Democrats in Chelmsford saw the reward for their hard campaigning efforts when Graham Pooley saw off the Tories to win a Council by-election. He increased the Liberal Democrat share of the vote by 17.7%. TheConservatives saw their vote fall by 3.5%.

The result, from the Chelmsford Liberal Democrats website, was as follows:

Graham Pooley (Lib Dem)     543

Conservative                               …

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Social liberal values and the tyranny of spin doctors – the Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) Conference

By Norman Fraser | Wed 27th June 2012 - 7:58 pm

Partick Burgh Halls in Glasgow was the venue for the Social Liberal Forum’s first Scottish Conference last weekend. Members came from as far away as England to participate in what turned out to be a lively and stimulating meeting.

The highlights of the event were:

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Opinion: Brown and Carmichael debate Coalition at lively Social Liberal Forum fringe

By Norman Fraser | Wed 7th March 2012 - 7:55 pm

The problem with Conference fringe meetings is that there are usually several that you want to go to and they’re all on at the same time. That was the case with the fringe run jointly by Liberal Futures and the Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) on Friday past at the Scottish Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in Inverness. The meeting attracted a respectable crowd but those who attended the Scottish Women’s Liberal Democrats and Liberal International meetings missed a lively debate on Liberal Democrats and the Coalition. The speakers were Robert Brown, the …

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Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) plans busy year

By Norman Fraser | Wed 25th January 2012 - 5:55 pm

On Saturday 21 January,  a dozen or so members of the Scottish arm of the Social Liberal Forum, including former parliamentarians Robert Brown and Elspeth Attwooll,  braved a bright but raw Scottish morning to meet in Partick Burgh Hall in the heart of Glasgow’s West End.  This steering committee’s job was to plan the advance of the Forum’s work in Scotland in the coming year and beyond.

Two hours of lively discussion ensued.  Discontent with some aspects of coalition policy was taken as a given.  A number of speakers gave examples from across the country of the loss of members from …

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Bill Aitken resigns over gang rape comments

By Caron Lindsay | Mon 21st February 2011 - 7:28 pm

Bill Atiken, the Conservative Convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee, has tonight resigned over comments he made to the Sunday Herald regarding a series of particularly horrific rapes in Glasgow.

He implied that the victim of a gang rape in a City Centre lane could have been a prostitute, and that “the police say that there’s a lot of drunken carry ons that lead to rape allegations which are subsequently dropped, put it that way.” His comments were first reported eight days ago, and although Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie sought to distance herself from them, she took …

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