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Senator John F. Kennedy, acceptance of the New York Liberal Party Nomination, September 14, 1960...

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

But first, I would like to say what I understand the word "Liberal" to mean and explain in the process why I consider myself to be a "Liberal," and what it means in the presidential election of 1960.

In short, having set forth my view -- I hope for all time -- two nights ago in Houston, on the proper relationship between church and state, I want to take the opportunity to set forth my views on the proper relationship between the state and the citizen. This is my political credo:

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves.

I believe also in the United States of America, in the promise that it contains and has contained throughout our history of producing a society so abundant and creative and so free and responsible that it cannot only fulfill the aspirations of its citizens, but serve equally well as a beacon for all mankind. I do not believe in a superstate. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well. But I believe in a government which acts, which exercises its full powers and full responsibilities. Government is an art and a precious obligation; and when it has a job to do, I believe it should do it. And this requires not only great ends but that we propose concrete means of achieving them.

Our responsibility is not discharged by announcement of virtuous ends. Our responsibility is to achieve these objectives with social invention, with political skill, and executive vigor. I believe for these reasons that liberalism is our best and only hope in the world today. For the liberal society is a free society, and it is at the same time and for that reason a strong society. Its strength is drawn from the will of free people committed to great ends and peacefully striving to meet them. Only liberalism, in short, can repair our national power, restore our national purpose, and liberate our national energies. And the only basic issue in the 1960 campaign is whether our government will fall in a conservative rut and die there, or whether we will move ahead in the liberal spirit of daring, of breaking new ground, of doing in our generation what Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson did in their time of influence and responsibility.

Our liberalism has its roots in our diverse origins. Most of us are descended from that segment of the American population which was once called an immigrant minority. Today, along with our children and grandchildren, we do not feel minor. We feel proud of our origins and we are not second to any group in our sense of national purpose. For many years New York represented the new frontier to all those who came from the ends of the earth to find new opportunity and new freedom, generations of men and women who fled from the despotism of the czars, the horrors of the Nazis, the tyranny of hunger, who came here to the new frontier in the State of New York. These men and women, a living cross section of American history, indeed, a cross section of the entire world's history of pain and hope, made of this city not only a new world of opportunity, but a new world of the spirit as well.

Tonight we salute Governor and Senator Herbert Lehman as a symbol of that spirit, and as a reminder that the fight for full constitutional rights for all Americans is a fight that must be carried on in 1961.

Many of these same immigrant families produced the pioneers and builders of the American labor movement. They are the men who sweated in our shops, who struggled to create a union, and who were driven by longing for education for their children and for the children's development. They went to night schools; they built their own future, their union's future, and their country's future, brick by brick, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, and now in their children's time, suburb by suburb.

Tonight we salute George Meany as a symbol of that struggle and as a reminder that the fight to eliminate poverty and human exploitation is a fight that goes on in our day. But in 1960 the cause of liberalism cannot content itself with carrying on the fight for human justice and economic liberalism here at home. For here and around the world the fear of war hangs over us every morning and every night. It lies, expressed or silent, in the minds of every American. We cannot banish it by repeating that we are economically first or that we are militarily first, for saying so doesn't make it so. More will be needed than goodwill missions or talking back to Soviet politicians or increasing the tempo of the arms race. More will be needed than good intentions, for we know where that paving leads.

In Winston Churchill's words, "We cannot escape our dangers by recoiling from them. We dare not pretend such dangers do not exist."

And tonight we salute Adlai Stevenson as an eloquent spokesman for the effort to achieve an intelligent foreign policy. Our opponents would like the people to believe that in a time of danger it would be hazardous to change the administration that has brought us to this time of danger. I think it would be hazardous not to change. I think it would be hazardous to continue four more years of stagnation and indifference here at home and abroad, of starving the underpinnings of our national power, including not only our defense but our image abroad as a friend.

This is an important election -- in many ways as important as any this century -- and I think that the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party here in New York, and those who believe in progress all over the United States, should be associated with us in this great effort.

The reason that Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson had influence abroad, and the United States in their time had it, was because they moved this country here at home, because they stood for something here in the United States, for expanding the benefits of our society to our own people, and the people around the world looked to us as a symbol of hope.

I think it is our task to re-create the same atmosphere in our own time. Our national elections have often proved to be the turning point in the course of our country. I am proposing that 1960 be another turning point in the history of the great Republic.

Some pundits are saying it's 1928 all over again. I say it's 1932 all over again. I say this is the great opportunity that we will have in our time to move our people and this country and the people of the free world beyond the new frontiers of the 1960s.

Year Of The Liberal Cat...

A couple of night ago Fran and Party President Mike Oborski attended to a concert by Al Stewart - "Year Of The Cat" and so much more - at Huntington Hall in Worcester. Introducing one of his songs about the First World War Al talked about the then Liberal Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith.

Mike Reports:-

After an excellent concert Al signed a copy of "Al Stewart Lights... Camera... Folk Rock" for me and I mentioned that I had met Violet Asquith, by then Violet Bonham-Carter, during the 60s. In fact she chaired the panel that first - somehow - approved me for the list of Approved Liberal Prospective Parliamentary Candidates!

Al turned out to be extremely well informed not only about Violet Bonham-Carter (nee Asquith) but about the whole family. He then mentioned that he named his daughter - Violet - after Violet Bonham-Carter. He had been impressed both by her strength in the face of adversity and loss in the First World War but also by her steadfastness in remaining with the Liberal Party in its darkest hours. I think I may write to him!

Fran is President of biggest teachers union branch in UK...

The new President of the largest teachers union branch in the United Kingdom is Cllr Fran Oborski - the Leader of the Liberal Group on Wyre Forest District Council.

Having served first as Junior Vice-President and then Senior Vice-President Fran Oborski became tonight the President of the 5,500 strong Birmingham Branch of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teacher (NASUWT).

Fran joined the then tiny and newly born Union of Women Teachers in 1966 and was their very first College Student Representative at the then Worcester College of Education (now University College Worcester) in 1966. The UWT later merged with the NAS to become the modern NASUWT.

The Birmingham Branch of the Union is not only the largest NASUWT Branch in the country but is also the largest local branch of any teachers union in the country!

Fran started her teaching career in Shropshire in 1968 moving to Wolverhampton in 1970 and to Birmingham in 1972 where she is now the Authorities Teacher Adviser responsible for Raising the Attainmenment of Children in the Care of the Local Authority.

Tonight Fran said "I have always been a totally comitted Trades Unionist and the NASUWT is the very best Trade Union in the country. It cares fror its members and it cares for all our children. It is an enormous honour to become the new President of its greatest local association!"

What is probably not known to many Liberals is that the driving force in the initial, against all the odds, launching of the Union of Women Teachers was Sally Rodgers.

Mike and Fran Oborski caught up with Sally at the 1967 "red guard" Liberal Assembly. Mike recalls "Sally was beautiful and articulate and she was on a crusade for education and for Liberalism. Sally was the Liberal's Liberal. She wasn't so much an activist - more an unstoppable force of nature. We were dwarved by her her intellect and by her energy and ability.

Tonigh we remember Sally.

Liberal News...

The latest edition - Liberal News 93 - online here!

BBC Radio 4

EXCESS BAGGAGE

13th March 2004

 

Sandi Toksvig and her guests discuss going on election tours around the world. How difficult were these tours and did they feel that they made any difference?

Guests included...

Past Liberal Party President Michael Meadowcroft

Michael Meadowcroft is an Election Observer. In recent years he has led, or been a member of thirty-seven missions to twenty-five different countries, assisting in the development of multi-party democracy. On these missions he has done everything from supervising civic education, to training election officials, to preparing a new constitution, co-ordinating voter registration and election monitoring itself.

In 1994 he co-ordinated the UN Electoral Assistance Team in Malawi. He has covered elections in Jerusalem, Russia, Bosnia., Bulgaria, Cambodia, Indonesia, Suriname, and Zambia. Other missions include Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, The Gambia, Georgia, Hong Kong, Iraqi Kurdistan, Lithuania, Philippines, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Uganda and Yemen.

Michael is a former member of the British Parliament. He has worked as a columnist in The Times, and has appeared on both Question Time and Any Questions.

Michael chaired the Electoral Reform Society from 1989 to 1993, it was during this time that the Soviet Union broke up and all of a sudden there were numerous small independent states which were looking for advice on how to run a fair and democratic election.

 

Pick up on the programme at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/

"Liberal Democrat Watch"...

The site is  absolutely nothing to do with the Liberal Party but you may find "LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WATCH" of interest. It picks up on some of the stranger comments and activities of the Lib-Dems.

Not Bad...

Wyre Forest Liberals Weblog did not make it into the final 12 nominees for The Guardian Political Weblog of the Year.

They did, however, make it into the next fourteen runners up!

Not bad for a Constituency party in the West Midlands!

Wrong to sack Tonge...

Liverpool Liberal Councillor Chris Lenton in The Spectator...

The sacking of Dr Jenny Tonge shows that Charles Kennedy has no understanding of the concept of free speech, surely a central tenet of liberalism. Dr Tonge has been demonised for expressing the view that Israel is complicit in the poverty and suffering in which many young Palestinians live. Why is it a heresy for a rational person to believe that desperate circumstances lead to the evil of suicide bombing? The Israeli lobby should understand this idea, since it justifies Israeli acts of terrorism during
the independence struggle of the late 1940s in similar terms.

The pressure to remove Dr Tonge plays into the hands of anti-Semites because it appears to show that on the subject of Israel, liberal tolerance and free speech are jettisoned in favour of deference to an intolerant and dogmatic vision of Zionism.

Chris Lenton
Liverpool

Demoted? She should be promoted

From the Manchester Evening News (30.1.03)...

I READ the comments by Jenny Tonge MP several times to try to comprehend why
she was so hastily jettisoned from the LibDem front bench. I am still at a
loss.

As a supporter of the State of Israel, I cannot comprehend why her
statements about suicide bombers were met in such a venomous fashion.

Surely, any rational person recognises that terrorism is bred out of
political and economic desperation. The United States and other great powers
have done nothing to modify the effective partition of the West Bank and
Gaza, and turned a blind eye to a policy of mass containment. These are the
very conditions to breed terrorism, not democratic settlement.

Even worse, the wall being built across the West Bank is being paid for out
of United States subsidies to the State of Israel.

Jenny Tonge has been ejected because of powerful interest groups, who do not
want to deal with the Palestinian problem as it is today.

She has wide international experience and told us all how the vast majority
of the global community see the facts.

She should be promoted, not demoted. It is refreshing to have a political
leader tell the uncomfortable truth.

Steve Radford, Chairman, The Liberal Party

Liberals at Stop The War Demo...

The Liberal Party National Executive meeting in London on Saturday 31st January broke off to join the STOP THE WAR demo outside Downing Street where Liberal Party Chair Cllr Steve Radford addressed the rally. Cllr. Radford said...

" I had the privilege of supporting your rally in Liverpool last year, I am deeply ashamed I was the only councillor out of 99 in the city to have joined you.

Today the National Executive of The Liberal Party have suspended our meeting for 45 minutes each minute to nail the coffin of the lie that weapons of mass destruction would and could be launched.

The weapons of mass destruction that could not be launched because they did not exist.

The dishonest claims were manufactured to justify an illegal and immoral invasion.

May I read you a statement made today by our NEC.

"We are appalled that the most important issue has not been subject to a public enquiry, namely why the UK was led into an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

We note that the alleged weapons of mass destruction have not been found and that there was no prospect of them existing at the time parliament was misled.

Furthermore we read with alarm spurious suggestions that such illusionary weapons have been removed to Syria, which may in turn be used for a further illegal invasion and occupation of that country"

As Liberals we do believe in overthrowing dictators, so why are British Troops not dispatched to overthrow Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Britain has more historical, legal and constitutional reasons to be there than in Iraq

The only reason is Iraq has oil that the USA wishes to control, Zimbabwe does not !

Secondly I would wish to read a special message of support from our National Executive to Jenny Tonge MP.

Jenny Tonge has committed the crime of telling the truth, her analysis of the desperation of the Palestinian people and the appalling way their country is being divided by a berlin wall, is a statement any reasonable person would know is true.

The continuation of USA subsidies to The State of Israel, which are used to build illegal settlements and partition walls is a root cause of political instability in the Middle East.

We in the Liberal Party are proud of our anti-militarist tradition

I am proud to stand with you today demanding a public enquiry as to the phony intelligence used to deceive Parliament

Thanks and God Bless you all... "

Cllr Radford was joined at the demonstration by fellow National Exercutive Committee Members John Hein of The Scots Liberal Party, Cllr Paul Holmes Leader of The Liberal party in Cornwall and Colin Hallmark of the West Midlands Liberal Party.

Support for Jenny Tonge...

On Saturday 31st January the National Executive Committee of the Liberal Party adopted the following Motion:-

The National Executive of The Liberal Party wishes to express its support to Jenny Tonge MP, concerning her clear and honest analysis of the political alienation and economic depravation of the Palestinian People.

We also believe that the continued subsidies by the USA to the State of Israel, who in turn use this finance to build partition walls and illegal settlements as a means of continuing the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, directly contributes to the destabilisation of politics in the Middle East.

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Policy Motions carried at the 118th Liberal Party Assembly (4th-5th October 2003)...

 

Protecting Children

Assembly welcomes the recent transfer of the Children’s Strategy Unit from the Department of Health to the Department of Education and Skills. Assembly further welcomes the appointment of a Minister for Children.

However, Assembly believes that, in order to develop and deliver a cohesive “joined up” service to children and young people:-

(i). Local Authority Education Services and the relevant parts of Social Services Departments should be combined to create Children and Families Divisions with the consequential separation of Social Services for children and adults.

(ii). The development of “extended schools” housing education, health and social service provision on single sites should be encouraged by specific government grant.

Furthermore, Assembly regrets that the Government has failed to rise to the challenge set by the Public Inquiry into the tragic death of Victoria Climbie and has not proposed to bring Private Fostering Arrangements under regulation by Social Services Departments.

Assembly notes that there are believed to be several thousands of young people, of mainly African origin, who have been sent to this country to be looked after in Private Fostering Arrangements with no formal supervision of any kind.

Assembly believes that it is imperative in the interests of these children and young people that all arrangements in which young people aged under 16 are looked after away from their own family home for long periods must be subject to registration with and supervision by the relevant Social Services Department.

Assembly further believes that the refusal of the Data protection Commissioner to allow the use of the NHS number to be used by LEAs for tracking mobile populations is potentially vulnerable young children at risk in Child Protection issues.

Assembly therefore calls for the NHS number, already released for Social Services and all Health Authority tracking purposes to be released for specific authorised uses by LEAs.

 

NHS Health Contracts

Assembly notes Labour Party proposals that NHS patients be required to sign an agreement for a certain standard of treatment in return for attending appointments and following doctors’ advice in areas such as diet or addiction.

Assembly resolves to oppose any such proposals on the grounds that they are an infringement of personal liberties and run counter to the whole ethos of a national health service.

 

Education 14-19

Assembly is concerned at the increasing influence of the Learning and Skills Council on the curriculum of 14-19 year olds in Secondary Schools in England.

Assembly believes that schools must reflect the character and aspiration of their communities and that within the principle of equality of opportunity we must celebrate diversity.

As a non-elected and non accountable body the activities of the LSC are impinging on the proper activities of democratically elected Local Education Authorities and are leading to ever greater centralisation of control of Education in this country.

Assembly resolves to campaign for the return of local education to democratic local authorities.

Assembly further condemns the ill considered comments made by Charles Clarke where he suggested testing all children in all subjects at the age of 14.

Assembly is mindful that young people in this country are already the most tested in the Western World and calls on HM Government to reduce the examination burden carried by our young people by:

(i) Abolishing all testing at the end of Key Stage 1.

(ii) Replacing external testing at the end of Key Stage 2 with a system of

assessment led by teachers within the schools.

Replacing the end of Key Stage 3 tests with an aptitude profiling system which would more appropriately guide young people to make appropriate choices for Key Stage 4.

 

PUBLIC SERVICES AND PFI

Assembly is concerned at the long term cost of “hiring” PFI facilities, which may never become public property, from the contractors in comparison to public funding which results in publicly owned facilities.

Assembly is also concerned at the lack of accountability and democratic control implicit in PFI procedures.

Assembly believes that it is essential to establish a full public audit of all PFI and PPP projects in which public interest would have priority over commercial confidentiality to ensure both value for money and provision of acceptable public services.

 

Europe & Referenda

Assembly notes that the Party’s policy statement on Government declares that “The Liberal Party is opposed to the use of referenda”.

Assembly believes that the Party’s commitment to a written constitution requires the use of referenda to amend such a constitution and accordingly resolves to amend the statement to read “The Liberal Party is opposed to the use of referenda except for determination of constitutional changes”.

Assembly further believes:

(i) that the British people should be enabled by a Referendum to decide the acceptance of the proposed Constitution for Europe now being negotiated;

(ii) that a summary statement (available in minority languages) of the constitution should be circulated to all households prior to a Referendum.

Welcomes the enlargement of the European Union;

Recognises that a European Union of twenty-five will require the development of the Union’s treaties and its procedures.

 

Iraq

Assembly believes that the pre-emptive attack on Iraq was both wrong and illegal.

Assembly is horrified by the manner in which, following upon the first invasion phase, Her Majesties Government appears to have deployed UK troops in Iraq for an indefinite period with no clear strategy and no clear “exit strategy”.

Assembly asserts that is imperative that the Iraqi people are assisted to determine their own democratically elected representatives and to establish their own governmental structures.

Assembly urges HMG to take all possible initiatives to ensure that this happens without delay under the guidance of the United Nations with any residual peace keeping forces provided by the United Nations and not by the “occupying powers”.

Assembly considers that the mandate relating to Security Council Resolution 1483 can only be legitimised by a force that is run and controlled by the United Nations.

Assembly calls on the British polity and the media to recognise that for better or worse, we have assumed responsibility for the welfare of 20 million Iraqis which must take priority over the futile search for weapons of mass destruction.

 

Asylum Seekers

Assembly condemns the current political climate which has poisoned attitudes towards those seeking refugee status in the U.K..

Assembly notes:

That the U.K. government has singularly failed to develop and maintain a coherent asylum policy after six years in power.

That there have been offensive campaigns linked with lurid media headlines that continue to fuel ignorance and misrepresentation of the asylum issue.

Assembly believes that the nature of recent comments by senior political figures has undermined long term U.K. commitments to international humanitarian law.

Assembly supports:

All of the U.K.’s statutory obligations as laid down in international law.

Amnesty Internationals call for a credible determination system in the UK. This could be partially achieved by the establishment of an Independent Documentation Centre. The IDC would act as a central point to gather information on the human rights situation in a country, which is vital if proper assessments of asylum claims are to be made.

Objective and comprehensive country of origin information is also very important if the general public is to have confidence in the process.

An emphasis on the quality of initial decisions to ensure that every claim is considered fully on its merits.

Good quality legal advice from the start of a claim.

The right of asylum seekers to work and live in the community as citizens of the UK pending their claims.

The repeal of clause 48 of the Nationalities Immigration and Asylum Act together with amendments to the Dublin Convention that would allow duel asylum claims within the EU.

 

Royal Mail

Assembly is concerned

(i) at Royal Mail’s recent announcement that it intends to discontinue its rail services from April 2004,

(ii) that this development runs contrary to Government’s integrated transport policy of increasing the amount of freight carried by rail and reducing the number of heavy goods vehicles on our roads.

Assembly condemns Government for its failure to implement its own policy and calls on government to take urgent action to ensure that road traffic such as Royal Mail is transferred back to rail.

 

Airport Expansion

Assembly believes that the existing leavel of air transport causes excessive noise and air pollution and that the Labout Government is negligent in encouraging an increase.

Assembly calls on Government to have a strategy of significant and measurable reduction in air and noise pollution.

Assembly is opposed to the expansion or creation of airports where this involves demolition of homes and loss of quality of life for adjacent residents. Assembly believes that views of local communities should predominantly determine the fate of such plans,

Assembly believes that where the extension of Airport facilities is essential this should usually be achieved by the extension of existing airports rather than by the creation of new Airports.

Assembly believes that the best resolution of encouraging use of public transport to and from air flights in the West Midlands lies in the extension of Birmingham Airport and a reduction in the overall level of other airport facilities in the West Midlands.

 

Road Charging and Road Speed Limiting

Assembly notes the introduction of congestion charging in Central London, the building of the first toll motorway alongside the M6 and various proposals for road pricing in the future.

Assembly notes existing Party policy which sates that “if widespread gridlock on our roads is to be avoided in the future, some sort of rationing of vehicle use and even vehicle ownership is inevitable. Accordingly, we would draw up proposals for road transport rationing, with a view to implementation of such a scheme, once a properly funded and integrated public transport system has been introduced”.

 

Taxation Thresholds

Assembly deplores the action of the Prime Minister in “closing down” the attempt of the Leader of the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Peter Hain MP, to open up a debate on the inequity of the current Inland Revenue Income Tax rates which currently place an unfair taxation burden on middle income families to the benefit of the highest earners in this country.

Assembly believes that a thorough overhaul of the taxation system is required in order to ensure that the burden of taxation is more evenly spread across the population whilst not penalising talent and enterprise.

In the meantime Assembly believes that an urgent re-appraisal of personal tax allowances should be undertaken so that the thresholds at which the different tax bands “kick in” are raised in order to lower the tax burden on low and middle income families.

 

Local Taxation

Assembly reaffirms the Liberal Party’s commitment to Land Value Taxation, which will ensure that the community enjoys and benefits of publicly created land values.

Assembly believes that for local government to be effective and democratic it is essential that it has adequate powers to raise finance with the minimum of central government interference.

Assembly calls for the abolition of the Uniform Business Rate and it’s replacement with a system of Land Value Taxation.

Assembly also calls for the abolition of the Council Tax at the earliest opportunity and its replacement primarily with Land Value Taxation.

Calls on Government, as a minimum, to allow Local Authorities to opt for Land Value Taxation as an alternative local taxation.

 

Protection of the coast from cargo pollution

Assembly welcomes the Department of Transport proposals to protect our coastlines from damaging oil spills but regrets that the International Maritime Organisation has not taken the opportunity to address wider issues, in particular:

1. Redirecting the passage of old or poorly maintained vessels away from sensitive coastal areas.

2. The immediate withdrawal of single hull tankers,

3. Discouraging the practice of using the void space between double hulls for the storage of bunker fuel,

4. Control and regulation of ship to ship transfers of potentially polluting or dangerous cargoes,

5. Designation of appropriate anchorages and minimum mooring requirements for specific sea conditions.

 

Cod Fishing

Assembly notes the current crisis in our fishing industry

Party's euro battle

Oct 1 2003

By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A POLITICAL party's national chairman came to Huddersfield to campaign against the euro. Liberal Party leader Clr Steve Radford helped to collect petition signatures at a town centre stall. He joined Dalton's Clr Elaine Sims, the party's sole representative on Kirklees. She said: "We were delighted at the response by shoppers, many of whom were happy to queue to sign up. "Even more noticeable were the comments from people who had worked or been abroad and had directly experienced a massive rise in prices when the euro was introduced on the Continent." Liberal Party members opposed the merger of the Liberal and Social Democrat parties in 1988, believing it to be an inadequate vehicle for promoting genuine Liberalism.

118th Liberal Party Assembly

118th Liberal Party Assembly

The Polish Ex-Combatant’s Club, Kidderminster,

Saturday 4th — Sunday 5th October 2003

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

FRIDAY 3rd October 2003

19.30 PARTY — Polish Club, St. George’s Terrace — A Taste of Poland (Tickets available on the night)

SATURDAY 4th October 2003

09.30 Registration

SESSION ONE...

Chair: Cllr Hazel William

10.15

WELCOME

Cllr Siri Hayward

Deputy Mayor of the Town of Kidderminster

10.25