The Liberal Democrats ALTER http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/ en-us 2008-04-25T17:16:28+00:00 Debt and house prices: whose problems? http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000126.php Published in this week's Liberal Democrat News: a letter by ALTER Vice Chair John Pincham. Owe the bank £100 and it's your problem, owe them £100 million and it's their problem. Add a few noughts and one has the developing... Tony Vickers 2008-04-25T17:16:28+00:00 ABC: ALTER - Banking - Cable http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000125.php ALTER departed from its pet subject of Land Value Taxation to suggest an Emergency Motion for Liverpool Conference, which Vince Cable and the Lib Dem Treasury Team supported and adapted. It was debated for 20 minutes on Sunday 9th March... Tony Vickers 2008-03-22T10:19:25+00:00 Economics as if people mattered http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000124.php Vince Cable was the main speaker at ALTER Spring Conference Fringe, on the day he was made a Vice President of the group. We had asked him to talk not about LVT itself, but about a wider range of radical... Tony Vickers 2008-03-17T20:28:00+00:00 Party Leaders accept offer of ALTER honours http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000122.php The new Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg MP, and his Deputy and Shadow Lib Dem Chancellor Vince Cable MP have both been invited - and accepted - offers to become Honorary Vice Presidents of ALTER. The 2008 AGM... Tony Vickers 2008-02-22T17:05:02+00:00 Another View on Clegg/Huhne http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000119.php The following posting was offered by ALTER supporter (not a paid-up member) Cllr David Murray of Wolverhampton. It was written after David watched Sunday's Politics Show on BBC "I am sure Nick is a "very very nice young man" with... Tony Vickers 2007-11-19T19:27:43+00:00 Why NOT Huhne? http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000118.php As the Party's only group existing to promote economic reform, you would expect us to endorse the candidacy of our President of the past five years, Chris Huhne. Your expectations are met. This is a personal message from ALTER's Chair,... Tony Vickers 2007-11-18T22:37:32+00:00 ALTER President stands for Leader of Lib Dems http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000117.php ALTER's President Chris Huhne, MP for Eastleigh since 2005 and the Liberal Democrats' Environment Spokesperson in Parliament, was first to declare himself as candidate to lead the Party following the resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell. Chris has always been a... Tony Vickers 2007-10-19T10:42:39+00:00 Landscape in Lobby to Lib Dem MPs http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000116.php All 63 Liberal Democrat MPs will shortly receive a copy of the pre-Conference issue of ALTER's newsletter Landscape, together with the book Location Matters: Recycling Britain's Wealth The Party's Conference, its supreme policy making body, meets to debate the Party's... Tony Vickers 2007-09-05T08:42:36+00:00 Press Release: Location Matters http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000113.php The publisher has asked ALTER to produce a suitable Press Release aimed at Lib Dem activists for their Chairman's book, of which you were notified on August 12th. Please download it and forward it on. ALTER will receive half of... Tony Vickers 2007-08-20T10:42:00+00:00 Sudden death of Chair of Labour Land Campaign http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000112.php It is my sad duty to inform you that a very good friend of many ALTER activists, Brian Hodgson, died of a heart attack on Saturday. Brian was co-chair with Margaret Godden of the Oxfordshire County Council Land Value Taxation... Tony Vickers 2007-08-20T10:23:54+00:00 New book out this week: Location Matters http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000111.php A book comes out this week that ALTER President Chris Huhne calls a primer for anyone who wants to create a more equitable, efficient and sustainable Britain Author Tony Vickers is a councillor in West Berkshire, a Director of the... Tony Vickers 2007-08-12T18:23:24+00:00 Autumn Conference debate timings http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000110.php The agenda for the Lib Dem Conference 16-20 September in Brighton has just been published and ALTER members may be interested in when the debates relevant to us are to occur. Sunday afternoon sees the opening of Conference and a... Tony Vickers 2007-07-31T13:53:08+00:00 1909-2009: If not LVT now, then when? http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000109.php ALTER seeks to rekindle the "spirit of 1909" Just under two years' from now sees the centenary of Lloyd-George's 1909 "People's Budget" that many regard as the launch pad of the Welfare State and the Liberal Reform agenda. Lib Dem... Tony Vickers 2007-05-28T12:46:36+00:00 Policy Committee chooses to reject LVT on homes http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000108.php The Lib Dems' Federal Policy Committee (FPC) met on 22nd May to consider the Tax Commission (TC) paper Reducing the Burden and a Minority Report submitted by ALTER Chair Tony Vickers. The TC on 27th March - the only time... Tony Vickers 2007-05-27T17:25:18+00:00 Huhne to speak at Land Tax Conference http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000107.php ALTER President Chris Huhne MP is to speak at a commercial conference in London organised by The Waterfront Conference Company on 15th May. The title of the event is "Smart Taxes Replacing Bad Taxes: If not Now, then When?" The... Tony Vickers 2007-05-02T21:26:01+00:00