SDP policy being realised... Welcome news!

I am very pleased to see the Labour Home Secretary action (at least some of) the SDP's 5th pledge on local democracy. Sensible.

Still on the hunt to connect with more Social Democratic Party members and supporters. Really pleased to have made the move in to the party and a long time coming. Feel free to follow and shout out! William Clouston SDP Adam Williams SDP/YSD Cllr Wayne Dixon Daniel WhetstoneSDP

The Secretary and VP of Warwick's SDP society, Oliver, discusses why young people should join the SDP and his favourite policy

Looks like US agree with the Social Democratic Party Green paper Energy Abundance that large scale nuclear is better

As you would expect from Social Democratic Party we have thought about this and our youth wing, the Young Social Democrats, whose members will be most affected by this disastrous policy, have drafted the solution Adam Williams SDP/YSD

As part of my MCC Visiting Fellowship and as SDP Chair, I was grateful for the opportunity to give a public lecture in Győr, Hungary, with my assessment of the health of democracy across Europe, and what is needed to improve it, featured also on Hungarian TV.

🔋Energy isn’t a sector - it’s the backbone to our economy. We’ve estimated the energy crisis has costs us trillions in lost productivity since 2005. Our solution? A state-led energy rebuild and a scrapping of net zero. Read our plan: sdp.org.uk/energy-abundan… #Growth

Happy birthday Your Majesty! 🎈🎂

We pay more in interest payments on our debt than the we spend on education. Why is debt such a problem? Hilary Salt Hilary Salt explains:

The stupidity of this - devising a national budget through gauging responses to a series of leaks and briefings ...

This is difficult to believe but we spend about £89bn on education and over £100bn on interest.

Nothing will work until the international legal architecture which denies border control is dismantled. Does Shabana realize this?

Two serious points being made below ...and if you want fiscally responsible centre left party, come and take a look at the SDP.

It's right to think about immigration through the lens of the national interest. As the SDP says in our New Declaration: "We will vigorously resist the naive ambitions of both ‘open border’ zealots and neoliberal ideologues in the interest of Britain’s community relations and

As a country, we spend over £100 billion on interest payments on our debt every year. Hilary Salt Hilary Salt explains where that debt has come from and why not all of it is bad.

Interest on our debt is the first call on our money - a key factor in making the budget numbers work.

It feels too Machiavellian to be true but could Government have talked down gilt yields with hints of tax cuts then dropped this once the reference period for gilt yields used in the budget was over? Unlikely but hard to dispel the suspicion once you’ve thought of it

Looking at how we spend our money is interesting. But the amount we spend on servicing the debt is a real concern

10 ways Rachel Reeves could raise tax. The very fact Hilary Salt Hilary Salt is addressing that question reveals a big problem with the way the budget process is conducted nowadays.