The Liberal Democrats ALTER
http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/
en-us2008-04-25T17:16:28+00:00Debt 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 Vickers2008-04-25T17:16:28+00:00ABC: 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 Vickers2008-03-22T10:19:25+00:00Economics 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 Vickers2008-03-17T20:28:00+00:00Party 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 Vickers2008-02-22T17:05:02+00:00Another 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 Vickers2007-11-19T19:27:43+00:00Why 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 Vickers2007-11-18T22:37:32+00:00ALTER 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 Vickers2007-10-19T10:42:39+00:00Landscape 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 Vickers2007-09-05T08:42:36+00:00Press 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 Vickers2007-08-20T10:42:00+00:00Sudden 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 Vickers2007-08-20T10:23:54+00:00New 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 Vickers2007-08-12T18:23:24+00:00Autumn 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 Vickers2007-07-31T13:53:08+00:001909-2009: 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 Vickers2007-05-28T12:46:36+00:00Policy 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 Vickers2007-05-27T17:25:18+00:00Huhne 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 Vickers2007-05-02T21:26:01+00:00