http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/ en-us 2009-05-18T09:00:52+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000153.php LVT ALTER implementation.doc... Tony Vickers 2009-05-18T09:00:52+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000152.php You are invited to attend this meeting to understand how various organisations belonging to the newly formed Coalition for Economic Justice (C4EJ) - of which ALTER is a founder member - approach the idea of Land Value Capture in the... Tony Vickers 2009-05-18T08:51:49+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000151.php I regard the use of the term "Social Liberal" rather like an annoying itch that one cannot quite reach! It is a distraction from more important matters and could be an indication of serious illness in the body politic -... Tony Vickers 2009-04-05T21:31:49+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000150.php I've been asked to give more details about how to attend both the ALTER AGM and the Seminar at the House of Commons next Tuesday 24th March. Some people are unclear about where exactly to go and how to ensure... Tony Vickers 2009-03-20T09:54:46+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000149.php You may be getting an email from ALTER for the first time. That's because you gave us your address at our fringe meeting last weekend at Harrogate Conference. If you don't want to receive these occasional emails with links to... Tony Vickers 2009-03-14T09:19:18+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000148.php The final agenda for the event mentioned in the previous posting to this site has now been published here. Please send it to anyone you write to.... Tony Vickers 2009-02-24T18:13:14+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000147.php She mentioned land value taxation a few months ago. Today she does it again, with a more comprehensive analysis. It would be good to follow up with letters to the Guardian, mentioning that our Party has at least resolved to... Tony Vickers 2009-02-24T12:13:48+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000146.php I'm sad to report that the Liberal Democrats will not be debating a motion at their Spring Conference this year on how to build a sustainable economic future for this country. ALTER had hoped to provide the Party with an... Tony Vickers 2009-01-23T11:34:15+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000145.php With the costs of our core activities (attending Federal and other Conferences, holding Fringe events, lobbying our MPs) all rising steeply, ALTER would much appreciate more paid-up members. We are keeping our subscription rate for 2009 unchanged - but are... Tony Vickers 2009-01-23T11:09:05+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000144.php The final version of ALTER's Motion was submitted in time, last night, before a late flood of offers to sponsor the earlier draft. Apologies for the slight changes (we hope you agree they improve it). Thanks to all who responded... Tony Vickers 2009-01-07T16:58:22+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000143.php ALTER would like the Party to mark the centenary next April of the 1909 Peoples Budget, a landmark of the last Liberal Government, by responding in equally historic fashion to possibly the worst economic crisis since that time. The Motion... Tony Vickers 2008-12-31T14:56:22+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000142.php Dovetailing nicely with ALTER's own Jobs First campaign to strengthen existing Lib Dem policy on LVT, a new cross-party initiative among LVT groups in the UK has just been launched, with which ALTER is associated. The Coalition for Economic Justice... Tony Vickers 2008-12-29T09:15:19+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000141.php LANDSCAPE winter 08.doc In this issue of Landscape, we contribute ideas for ensuring that the UK comes out of economic depression sooner and more sustainably than it otherwise would. Although Vince Cable led the world in forecasting why and how... Tony Vickers 2008-12-26T10:45:07+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000140.php ALTER has written to every Lib Dem MP to invite them to a briefing on proposals to "fireproof" the economic recovery plan launched by the Party last month. The proposals centre around a further tranche of Tax Shifting - reducing... Tony Vickers 2008-11-24T08:36:39+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/000138.php Two articles by ALTER members appear in the latest issue of the magazine Land & Liberty, which has chronicled the impact of the writings of Henry George for over a century. One entitled "Owner, worker, giver, thief" by Ian Hopton,... Tony Vickers 2008-10-12T18:31:50+00:00