19 Comments

• Ab 1st Dec '12 - 12:27pm

  Hasn’t the London order been announced now? My twitter feed is suggesting so https://twitter.com/laylamoran/status/274844318613774338

• Simon Oliver 1st Dec '12 - 3:02pm

  you have the North West in the wrong order – 4th Jane, 5th Sue, 6th Qassim

• Mark Valladares 1st Dec '12 - 3:47pm

  Simon,

  I think that you’ve forgotten something, i.e. the additional requirement for one BAME candidate to be placed in the top four, two in the top six. This is post-adjustment, I presume.

• liberal neil 1st Dec '12 - 4:23pm

  I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that Catherine Bearder will just squeak home in the South East 😉

• Jonathan Davies 1st Dec '12 - 4:24pm

  More detailed figures are in the Members’ Forum (in the Candidates’ Selection topic)

• M James 1st Dec '12 - 5:30pm

  How many votes were cast, and how do they compare with last time?

• Jones 1st Dec '12 - 7:31pm

  Issan Ghazni name misspelt
  http://issanghazni.wordpress.com/

• Dinti Batstone 2nd Dec '12 - 4:17pm

  Anyone who wants to see the full details of the results can find them here http://www.crosenstiel.webspace.virginmedia.com/eu12/eu12se.htm

• Tony Dawson 2nd Dec '12 - 5:51pm

  @Mark Valladares :

  “i.e. the additional requirement for one BAME candidate to be placed in the top four, two in the top six. ”

  Is that legal ie not discriminating against people on racial grounds? Could someone quote the ‘authority’?

• Mark Valladares 2nd Dec '12 - 8:02pm

  Tony,

  What do you mean by ‘the authority’? This was a decision taken by the English Party, and I assume that they checked its legality first.

• Jonathan Davies 2nd Dec '12 - 9:21pm

  Under the Equality Act 2010, the Party can legally use positive action in relation to particular under-represented groups as identified in the Act. For the purposes of these selections, the English Candidates Committee decided to adopt positive action for black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates.

• Simon McGrath 2nd Dec '12 - 9:56pm

  Racism is racism whatever the reasons for it.
  can you clarify the definition of ethnic minority used ?

• Adam 3rd Dec '12 - 1:26pm

  Very disappointed with the ‘positive’ discrimination rules, of which I wasn’t even aware when I voted.

  Regional members vote for the best candidates and then the English Party essentially says they don’t like those results and rearranges them. Disgraceful!

• Paul R 4th Dec '12 - 11:27am

  Out of curiosity, why is position 6 on the Yorkshire & Humber list shown as “vacant”?

  I know it is the last position but still…

• Líam (@doktorb) 4th Dec '12 - 2:10pm

  If there wasn’t BaME realignment, we’d have commentators complaining about the LibDems being “white, male and middle class”. If you look on the Commons benches, you’ll notice that’s what we predominately are….

• Hywel 4th Dec '12 - 3:00pm

  Liam – this readjustment does nothing to have more BAME candidates on our Euro lists or to get more BAME candidates into positions where they are likely to get elected.

• Rebecca Taylor 4th Dec '12 - 4:44pm

  The 6th place on the Y&H list is vacant because a candidate put himself forward for the Y&H and another regional list and decided to accept his place on the other list, thus withdrawing from the Y&H selection process.

• Paul R 4th Dec '12 - 5:23pm

  Rebecca,

  Thanks for the explanation.

  I presume the slot will be filled before the election. It gives the impression there are either less than 6 Members in Y&H (!) or else that the members there are just very shy. 🙂

• Dave Page 4th Dec '12 - 5:37pm

  I’m pretty sure that these selection rules are not the whim of the English Candidates Committee but the result of a Federal conference business motion. That was itself the culmination of many years of debate, and many other motions which were defeated. It’s not like this should be a surprise to anybody who pays attention 🙂