If you haven’t already joined the Lib Dems Save the Net Facebook campaign, I recommend you do so.
Meanwhile, an emergency motion has been submitted to Spring conference. Bridget Fox has the details.
I’ve submitted the following questions to the Federal Policy Committee for the morning of conference:
1. What role has the FPC played in formulating the Liberal Democrat response to the Digital Economy Bill?
2. The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party often finds itself having to respond to legislation that the party has little or outdated policy on. What does the FPC do to ensure that the eventual response from the Parliamentary Party is a) the result of as open and democratic a process as possible; and b) adequately consults the views of all stakeholders with an interest in the legislation?
And finally, I’ve written an article on Comment is Free about the Clement-Jones/Razzall amendment:
No doubt Clement-Jones and Razzall felt that making bad less awful was the only responsible thing to do. In fact, forcing us to choose between judges and lawyers having to interpret a bad law and ministers making it up as they go along is no choice at all. After five years of one of the most depressing parliaments in living history, the last thing the Lib Dems can afford to do is to present themselves as the nicer, slightly less unacceptable face of the establishment. Leave that to David Cameron.