Bird of Liberty poll result
Written by the founding editor on 11th April 2007 – 3:50 pmGet the pigeon? Is it time to ditch Libby, the Lib Dem Bird of Liberty logo?
Yes!: 23% (54)
No!: 77% (179)
Total Votes : 233
There you go then, a clear minority in favour of ditching Libby. Only the yes vote can beat the no vote here. It’s a two-horse, no-bird race.
Oh all right then, keep the bird!
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11th April 2007 at 5:54 pm
Is this the best point for me to ask whether the current question - “What’s your favourite federal conference venue from recent years? ” - has left out Manchester on purpose?
I found the Manchester venue to be perfect for the Conference, and whilst I know there may be all sorts of reasons why it is frowned upon from those “on high”, I thought it did its job. Any chance we could ever go back to the MICC?
11th April 2007 at 8:07 pm
I don’t remember going to Manchester in the four or five years I’ve been a member… I must’ve skipped that conference! When was it?
11th April 2007 at 9:48 pm
And just because you think nobody would vote for Blackpool…
Look, it’s got a Doctor Who Exhibition, however grotty.
In fact, so (as of very recently) has Manchester!
Are you not a fan, Rob?
11th April 2007 at 9:50 pm
Also, when was Federal Conference held in Enfield? I must have missed that one.
Is your poll 250 or so hours, perhaps?
11th April 2007 at 9:53 pm
(Whoops - 250 or so hours late. Well, it’s clearly past my bedtime! Let’s see if there’s a new poll in the morning.)
11th April 2007 at 10:02 pm
I give up and I want my mummy.
New poll!
11th April 2007 at 10:33 pm
Readers who’d already voted may like to have another go, as poor beleaguered Robin has just replaced the slightly wobbly poll with a more accurate one. It adds Blackpool and Manchester, and shifts the ‘South’ venue north by a couple of hundred miles. All this means that, if you’d like to ready your suspicious bar charts, the representation of the North West increases variously ‘by 3’, ‘by 42.86%’ or – if you have a really, really long bit of paper (a Moebius FOCUS may be necessary), ‘by infinity per cent’. Beat that, YouGov!
As I type, there’s equal support for all the Bs…
12th April 2007 at 10:58 am
“I don’t remember going to Manchester in the four or five years I’ve been a member… I must’ve skipped that conference! When was it? ”
Er…It was the drugs motion and…can’t think what year it was now. Damn aged memory.
12th April 2007 at 2:30 pm
Why no Edinburgh or Glasgow?
12th April 2007 at 2:38 pm
Because it’s about Federal Conference venues in recent years.
12th April 2007 at 11:31 pm
Manchester was Spring 2002.
12th April 2007 at 11:48 pm
I remember making the point at a fringe meeting at the Manchester Conference that the Conference in Manchester was an awful idea. This was mainly as I was on the Council at the time and enjoyed travelling to Conference. Getting the bus home legless wasn’t part of a Conference experience.
Love the seaside ones - although Harrogate is good too.
Brighton, too expensive - Blackpool too expansive.
Rochdale would be good - Cyril would even hold a fringe meeting in his house! Well worth considering. By the way… we’re well on the way to a good election!
13th April 2007 at 9:03 am
Pleased to see Manchester back on the list. The last Lib Dem one there was great and while the city struggled a bit with a conference the size of Labour’s last autumn (I was there), it can cope with us, no problem.
13th April 2007 at 11:41 am
I have to agree with a return to Manchester. The MICC worked as a venue, the city itself has a great atmosphere, and, perhaps crucially, it offers a credible Northern option for a venue.
14th April 2007 at 1:18 pm
Wow, shocked to see that I’m not the only one voting Blackpool, unless those pesky Tories are trying to rig our poll.