Month: September 2006
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I’m urgently trying to get conference representatives to propose the following amendment to the Diversity and Equality motion being debated on Monday at Conference: Insert between lines 15 and 16: “Conference reaffirms existing policy on gender balance, in particular its call for ‘The Federal Executive to ensure that the Campaign for Gender Balance is adequately…
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In my absence from the blogosphere, it would appear there has been fevered discussion about who should be the next Lib Dem President, with most people appearing to favour pretty much anyone but Simon Hughes. See Alex Wilcock and Liberal Review. One name I haven’t seen mentioned much is David Rendel, yet he would appear…
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Tommygate continues to bemuse. Is Watson the first minister to resign in order to spend more time with the Chancellor’s family? The “cover story” – that Watson was merely visiting to give Brown’s baby a present – is so laugh-out-loud unlikely that it could actually be true – who would make up an alibi like…
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I’ve added the main fringe meetings I plan to be going to onto flock together and added my personal feed from that website onto my sidebar. If you’re a Lib Dem blogger, why not do the same? Personally, aside from the day job I’ll be busy promoting my chapter on intergenerational equity in Graham Watson/Liberator’s…
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The problem with the extreme-slow-motion-car-crash that is the Blair/Brown rift is that, apart from being appallingly tiresome, it tends to highlight to me why I don’t think Gordon Brown will make a particularly good Prime Minister. For certainly the last 6 years, he has been plotting away to undermine the PM every way he can…