Sentences with phrase «social liberals»

The reaction of an increasingly coherent group of social liberals to the 2008 conference was not to leave, but to organise.

A depressing conclusion, but what can we as social liberals do?

Perhaps, the most important progressive highlight for social liberals was the housing benefit debate.

Like all liberals, social liberals believe in the core value of freedom.

Yet the doubts persist, even among those who should be his natural allies on the left - leaning social liberal wing of the party.

Would you like to know if there are any other social liberals living near you?

A political programme based around social liberal beliefs will be both popular and distinctive.

This topic is as divisive between cat / bird people as is abortion between social liberals and conservatives.

This women is just pushing her own political agenda and she is using the same old tactics that social liberals use to justify there selective interpretations of the bible.

There are a lot more affluent social liberals than there were in 1972.

This leads social liberals to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to get a good education, to get good healthcare and to get a good job with decent pay.

Like all liberals, social liberals believe that individuals should have the freedom to develop and grow as they wish.

Naomi Smith, from Social Liberal Forum, the internal party pressure group for the Liberal Democrats told BBC News the result was «utterly depressing».

He believes, while Cuomo is a Democrat, he is center - right on economic issues, and weak on social liberal issues.

The Liberal Democrats are historical a centre - left social liberal party that has striven for individual freedom, social justice, political reform and the environment.

One Society has joined with Social Liberal Forum and 38 Degrees in attempt to bring balance to the debate and persuade the government to stick to -LSB-...]

Disclaimer: Membership of the Council does not imply agreement with any or all policy statements made by Social Liberal Forum.

-LSB-...] Social Liberal Forum say «It is heartening to see policies that we as Liberal Democrats have long campaigned for -LSB-...]

The EU however appears intolerant - a devout Catholic, Mormon, Muslim is apparently incompetent to take a role in the European Project unless they, against conscience, sign up to a package of social liberal policies.

-LSB-...] social liberal alternative is spelt out on this website in Richard Grayson's chapter on the NHS from Reinventing the State.

«I don't think of them as social liberals who wanted to overthrow the government,» she added.

This gives all of us, in particular Social Liberals within the Liberal Democrat party, to lobby hard to ensure that the reforms to tuition fees are fair, progressive and equitable.

The radical social liberal wing in the party has yet to find its full voice and good members continue to bleed away, some to Labour but most drop out of party politics altogether.

The vested interests of Thatcherism in both the Tories and Labour are well dug in, but a radical social liberal agenda can help to displace them at the ballot box.

What's New Labour if not social liberal?

He is the candidate of the ruling Social Liberal Union (Liberal and Socialist parties) coalition for the 2014 presidential elections.

Often this involves stressing what are now conservative views of free market economics and belief in individual responsibility, with social liberal views on defence of civil rights, environmentalism and support for a limited welfare state.

Members of the Liberal Democrat Federal Policy Committee — together with Social Liberal Form Council members — have written to the Times reasserting the party's democratic and independent manifesto process.

I conjecture that even young social liberals desiring to worship prefer churches with spiritual vitality that profess a transcendent message challenging their own worldly preferences.

James: as a Labour social liberal I obviously sympathise with your position.

The first modern self - described liberal Democratic President was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who enacted the New Deal, a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 and a few that came later.

This pamphlet draws together social liberal thinking from past and present, advocating policies that would lead to sustainable prosperity and good jobs for all.

We made a successful attempt to get social liberals elected to the party's Federal Policy Committee (FPC), where we were able to defeat an attempt by the leadership to drop the policy of scrapping university tuition fees.

The SLF exists to foster debate within and beyond the Liberal Democrats, with the aim of developing social liberal solutions and approaches which reflect these principles and which find popular support.

I am very happy that Social Liberal ideas are being argued for, instead of being mixed in with the Tories» ideas and lost completely.

We are delighted to invite you to the first meeting of the South East Social Liberal Forum.

What is the Liberal Democrats» stall to be, if it is not a positive social Liberal blueprint for the future, different from the compromises necessary of coalition with George Osborne — the Coalition position?

There are — of course — also social liberals within the party who are more left leaning.

Many Liberals, particularly social liberals, find this housing benefit cap really hard to accept.

Labour actually supporting PR (even for local elections), and clamping down on appalling things like David Blunkett using Hitler to scare people into censoring the internet would do a lot for pulling social liberals people back.

The new Social Liberal Forum executive has published a joint statement on what we see are the key priorities for the next Liberal Democrat manifesto.

If Social Liberal need more ideas to advance their cause, then this is the place to be this October.

The leadership later won the vote, with amendments from the left - leaning Social Liberal Forum rejected.

Not only are Johnson and Weld social liberals and fiscal conservatives, they espouse views traditionally associated with moderate Republican candidates on the economy, such as favoring international trade agreements and reducing the national debt.

It was currently a four - way race, with political novice and social liberal Emmanuel Macron polling slightly ahead of the far - right candidate Marine Le Pen.

Christian does not equal Republican; frankly social liberals are more in line with the Gospel in regard to social equality and treatment of the poor and widowed.

Social liberal ideology is like Gnosticism in its reliance (which is usually implicit) on one form or another of person - body (or self - body) dualism; but dualism is only one feature of Gnosticism (albeit a very important one).

Slamming on the brake and preventing the GOP from nominating social liberals (adios Giuliani) is all we've been able to do for several election cycles.

A senior activist from the leftwing Social Liberal Forum of the party says Cable's leadership fills that faction with «dread», given he was in charge of the business department that pushed through the fees rise.