Comments on: Can you give 5 minutes of your time to improve discussion within the Liberal Democrats? http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martin Tod http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40505 Martin Tod Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:43:39 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40505 Bill, Would you be interested in doing a 'pasta and politics' in Winchester? :-) Martin Bill,

Would you be interested in doing a ‘pasta and politics’ in Winchester? :-)

Martin

]]> By: Bill Newton Dunn http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40476 Bill Newton Dunn Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:42:42 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40476 The EU, the family of European nations working together, makes collective decisions which affect us all in the UK. But our party (and the other parties too) makes little attempt to integrate European issues into mainstream Lib Dem discussions. Liaison between its MPs and MEPs is abysmal, even though party members imagine it must be very good. MPs have very little understanding of how Europe operates. Westminster does not ask for upstream facts and debating material which is readily and plentifully available from MEPs on issues which are going to reach the Westminster forum. If we Lib Dems, the most pro-European party in the UK, do not make Europe our mainstream policy, we forfeit a major advantage over the other parties, particularly since youth in the UK is becoming much more pro EU than older genetrations in the UK. The EU, the family of European nations working together, makes collective decisions which affect us all in the UK.
But our party (and the other parties too) makes little attempt to integrate European issues into mainstream Lib Dem discussions. Liaison between its MPs and MEPs is abysmal, even though party members imagine it must be very good. MPs have very little understanding of how Europe operates. Westminster does not ask for upstream facts and debating material which is readily and plentifully available from MEPs on issues which are going to reach the Westminster forum.
If we Lib Dems, the most pro-European party in the UK, do not make Europe our mainstream policy, we forfeit a major advantage over the other parties, particularly since youth in the UK is becoming much more pro EU than older genetrations in the UK.

]]> By: Jeremy Hargreaves http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40450 Jeremy Hargreaves Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:30:28 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40450 Thanks for comments. I'm certainly very happy to share the results of the survey with regions or anyone else appropriate. Thanks for comments. I’m certainly very happy to share the results of the survey with regions or anyone else appropriate.

]]> By: Martin Tod http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40421 Martin Tod Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:15:44 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40421 <a href="http://www.flocktogether.org.uk/showOrganisation.php?Organisation=638" rel="nofollow">Pizza, pasta, poppadoms and politics page</a> is now in place Pizza, pasta, poppadoms and politics page is now in place

]]> By: Jock http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40399 Jock Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:41:13 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40399 Here in South Central region I'm tasked by the policy committee with getting in touch with individual local parties to try and build up a network of "Pizza & Politics" or, as I believe they call it in OxWAb, "Petrus & Politics". This has not started yet - our spring conference is next weekend and I was going to try to use that to meet as many local party reps as I could. Here in South Central region I’m tasked by the policy committee with getting in touch with individual local parties to try and build up a network of “Pizza & Politics” or, as I believe they call it in OxWAb, “Petrus & Politics”. This has not started yet – our spring conference is next weekend and I was going to try to use that to meet as many local party reps as I could.

]]> By: Martin Tod http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40391 Martin Tod Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:14:42 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/can-you-give-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-improve-discussion-within-the-liberal-democrats-2189.html#comment-40391 Let me know if it would help to provide more support for this on Flock Together. For example, would it be worth setting up a Pizza and Politics group for people to register events against? Would it be useful to have a page that shows all policy discussions? (in theory easy to do...) All comments and thoughts welcome. Let me know if it would help to provide more support for this on Flock Together.

For example, would it be worth setting up a Pizza and Politics group for people to register events against? Would it be useful to have a page that shows all policy discussions? (in theory easy to do…)

All comments and thoughts welcome.

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