contribution by Arjun Singh-Muchélle When social democrats write about the future of social democracy, there is a conspicuous absence in their writing of ownership. They make references to elusive ‘social democracy’ and ‘social democrats’, without ever referring to themselves. Time for that to change.

In 2007, the LPUK was born out of a total frustration with the 'Big Brother' State, and the seeming non existant opposition to the Government by the Tories and Social Democrats. The LPUK was the first Party born out of the 'Net' The Political Blogs were the only force that was consistantly exposing graft,corruption, expense fiddling and incompetance of Big State, High Tax Gover...

The last article I wrote conjoured up a utopian vision of Liberal Democrat e-campaigning. However, it might not be a realistic aim for individuals or groups who lack social media expertise, or time, to develop a fully fledged social media presence. How, then, should Liberal Democrats prioritise the different elements of social media? The first

According to preliminary results, Austria's Social Democrats secured a win in Sunday's parliamentary elections with 29 percent of the vote. However, this is likely to earn the Social Democrats only 58 of the 183 seats in the country’s National Council, 10 seats fewer than the party previously held. These results represent the poorest showing for the country's predominant Socia...

Is it really such a bad thing that there aren’t “enough” social workers? After all, as Parkinson’s Law of Social Work states that social problems increase to occupy the total number of social workers available to deal with them Yes, that was me being facetious, but the point remains that we don’t need huge numbers of social

Still bent double with hysterical laughter at the latest risible attempt by the Social Democrats to get down with the kids

The poorest children still have little chance of becoming lawyers, doctors, senior civil servants and financiers, a report published by the Liberal Democrats today shows. The Social Mobility Commission, set up by the party, said billions of pounds spent on improving social mobility over the past decade has helped middle-class rather than working-class children. Last year only 35% of pupils eligibl...

I was at the PPC selection meeting for the LPUK yesterday in London. We have a good crop of candidates across the country for a general election, I will be visiting the LPUK in Scotland to do the same exercise. We had some exceptional speakers in Gregg Beaman and Andrew Hunt on their experiances on the door step currently. It is not looking good for the failed Conservative/Labour/Social Democrat c...

One of the most insidious manifestations of the Blair years, and of European social democracy in general, has been the increased emphasis on social mobility rather than social justice as the measure of a healthy society. Its effect in this country has been the removal of a key plank of Labour’s philosophical identity as a party

LPUK 140 (6.9%) Tory 930 (46.2) Lab 212 (10.5) Social Democrats196 (9.7) Ukip 532 (26.4) From nowhere to a near seven per cent of the Vote for the first outing of the LPUK in an Election. Andrew Hunt was actively out on the doorstep campaigning, none of the other parties bothered. Congratulations Andrew on a very credible showing.