From Saturday’s Liberal Democrat Presidential Election count at Cowley Street: Ros Scott’s acceptance speech.
Special bonus scenes: The announcement of the result, clips of Chandila Fernando and Lembit Öpik and the promise of a new First Kitten. (6:34)

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Lembit Opik, the runner-up in the Lib Dem presidential election, has issued this gracious response to the result and explained his plans for the future:
I congratulate Ros for her clear victory. If Barack Obama had employed Ros Scott as his campaign manager, he’d have won by even more than he did! As a seasoned [...]

That’s the question after Ros Scott’s landslide victory in the race to become party president. Lembit is, without doubt, one of the party’s stars: he has charisma, a sense of humour, a strong liberal streak, and is a terrific speaker.
And yet somehow all that talent, all that energy, seems to be channelled in an [...]

Well, I’m not going to pretend that the Lib Dem Voice members’ surveys predicted the outcome of the party presidential race within a statistical margin of error. But it is interesting to see - in the first test of the surveys in an internal election - that they were reflective of how the wider membership [...]

I’m at Cowley Street, at the election count for the next President of the Liberal Democrats.
The count has just been completed and the result is as follows:
Ros Scott: 20,736 votes (72%)
Lembit Opik: 6247 votes (22%)
Chandila Fernando 1799 votes (6%)
Commenting, the new Liberal Democrat Party President, Ros Scott said:
I’m really proud to belong to a Party [...]

1. Anyone can become a (“registered supporter”) if they are on the electoral register in the UK and sign some form of statement saying they are a supporter of the Liberal Democrats.
2. This data would be centrally collated - although obviously shared with local parties - on a database package that could be deployed [...]

One of the roles of the President is to be the bridge between the members and the centre. That’s why I’ve promised to:
Keep in touch with the membership through email bulletins, my blog, LD News and Party mailings.
Use e mail and electronic voting as a means of consulting members.
Attend one conference each year [...]

I’ve made a specific manifesto commitment to use my Presidency to measurably increase the membership by 2010. Recruitment is one of my areas of specialist interest across the last 17 years. I made the first three recruitment training videos for the Lib Dems - one of them has even achieved a degree of cult status! [...]

Lib Dem Voice has invited party presidential hopefuls Chandila Fernando, Lembit Opik and Ros Scott to make their pitches for how they’d improve Lib Dem membership. In a series of articles, they will set out their ambitions and how they would deliver on them.
You can find out more about how to vote in the election [...]

The new edition of Liberator magazine includes a questionnaire of all three candidates for the Liberal Democrat presidency.
We asked the following six questions:
Q.1 – What relevant experience will you bring to the presidency?
Q.2 – The presidency has three functions that do not necessarily sit well together – representing the party to the leadership, acting as [...]

A fairly extraordinary press release has been issued by Lembit Opik – one of the three Lib Dems standing for the post of party presidency which will be decided by an all-member ballot within the next few weeks – demanding an end to an alleged “conspiracy” in the party against his candidacy.
I’ll reproduce the whole [...]

At the start of last week, Lib Dem Voice emailed the members of our private forum (open to all Lib Dem members) inviting them to take part in a survey, conducted via Liberty Research, asking a number of questions about the current state of British politics, especially as they affect the Lib Dems. Many thanks [...]

Liberal Democrat Voice has offered each of the three candidates for the post of Party President three platform pieces on LDV during the contest to make their case to party members. How they choose to use these platforms is entirely up to them. This is the second of Ros Scott’s contributions.
I am delighted that Vince [...]

As everyone knows, Lib Dems love elections - and what could be better than our internal elections, where a Lib Dem is guaranteed to finish first? Over on the official party site, you can find out the full list of nominated candidates for the following party positions and committees:

Party President
Chandila Fernando - www.chandila.com
Ros Scott - [...]

Liberal Democrat Voice has offered each of the three candidates for the post of Party President three platforms pieces on LDV during the contest to make their case to party members. How they choose to use these platforms is entirely up to them. Today it’s Lembit Öpik’s turn.
It’s intriguing to stand in an all member [...]

Liberal Democrat Voice has offered each of the three candidates for the post of Party President three platforms pieces on LDV during the contest to make their case to party members. How they choose to use these platforms is entirely up to them. Today it’s Ros Scott’s turn.
In my view, one of the key jobs [...]

Liberal Democrat Voice has offered each of the three candidates for the post of Party President three platforms pieces on LDV during the contest to make their case to party members. How they choose to use these platforms is entirely up to them. First up is Chandila Fernando, whose campaign website can be found here.
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