Your chance to Get Involved: interview Ed Davey, the Lib Dems’ Shadow Foreign Secretary
Written by Millennium Elephant on 19th February 2008 – 12:49 amDear friends,
Mr Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, has bravely and generously agreed to offer us bloggers some of his time for an interview to cover the wide range of Liberal Democrat Foreign Policy!
This is a particularly busy and exciting time for the foreign affairs team, with the European Reform Treaty that is passing through the House of Commons causing a lot of interest, but also the elections in America and Pakistan, the Olympics in China, the situation in Darfur and the ongoing battles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I know that lots of you will be interested, and so, in the interest of opening up these interviews to more people, we should like to invite more of you to join in. Place ARE limited, but we would like to see some new faces. In particular, we should like at least one person who would be willing to write up the interview for Liberal Democrat Voice. So you can have a go even if you don’t have your own blog!
The interview will take place in London at 7pm in the evening of Monday 3rd March, and we hope to squeeze about an hour into Mr Ed’s busy schedule.
Applications in the comments column below, please, so long as you have an e-mail for me to contact you.
Go on, give it a go!
Love from Millennium
(now, read my diary!)
Posted in Lib Dem People, e-campaigning
19th February 2008 at 8:46 am
Oooo… Mother may I?
19th February 2008 at 9:39 am
Me too, please, Millennium, if I’m able! And I’ll raise my writing-up speed…
19th February 2008 at 12:22 pm
I’d like to do this. I’ve got a shopping list of issues…
19th February 2008 at 5:33 pm
I’d love to have a crack.
20th February 2008 at 7:27 am
As the chair of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine (which has AO status), please may I attend? All the good intentions of well meaning people the world over are as nought until all parties are forced to recognise the rights of the others under international law, and accept their own obligations. It is because Israel does not accept this as a fundamental premiss for negotiations that this bloody dispute has not been resolved. I want to ask Ed to campaign for the suspension of Israel’s trade privileges in the EU until Israel accepts all Palestinian rights which are are recognised under international law. Check out our web-site to see that we are truly liberal and even-handed on this issue!
26th February 2008 at 10:47 am
Hello again!
Here is an update and a reminder.
Due to emergency legislation to nationalise a bank, the Parliamentary schedule has been BUMPED a bit. This means that Mr Ed cannot do Monday, 3rd March any more. So we have rearranged to do the interview TOMORROW! (Wednesday 27th.)
Fortunately, I think that we HAVE our panel of interviewers now, picked on a first-come-first-served basis, and some old hands will be joined by new faces, Mr Gavin and Ms Merel.
For the people who didn’t get it, there is always next time!
Remember, though, the idea of these interviews is so that people can take part with the intention of writing them up for their blogs or the Voice; it isn’t a general invitation to party members for a Q&A. To take Mr John as an example, we wouldn’t invite him along “as chair of Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine”; but we MIGHT invite him as John McHugo, blogger (who also happens to be chair of LDFP).
Plus, I DO need to be able to contact you – Mr Simon, I’m afraid there doesn’t seem to be a “contact address” on your blog. If you don’t like to leave your e-mail addy on the comments, then please feel free to e-mail me at . Drop me a line because we WILL be doing more of these Interviews as the year goes on.
2nd March 2008 at 9:59 pm
I’d just like to remind people after last week’s Ed Davey bloggers’ interview that there will probably be more of these in the future, so keep an eye out for future announcements if you’d like a go; the Ed interview had several new people on a first-come, first-served basis (and, as I’d done some previous ones, I decided to give my place to someone else to have a go).
Watch out for the open invites on the biggest Lib Dem blogging site, and try not to get your knickers in a twist if you miss them, because there’ll always be other chances. Remember, initially it was just the people who were shortlisted for last year’s Blogger of the Year who were invited to an interview, but once Richard (and Millennium) took on all the work of organising more of them – it would never happen without someone gettting their finger out rather than just whingeing – he and the rest of us decided other people should have a go. Everyone’s invited, not just the self-important who think they need a special invite for self-styled brilliance
2nd March 2008 at 10:12 pm
Ah, how timely…