13 Comments

• Joshua Dixon 28th Oct '14 - 10:27am

  Should be a fascinating and interesting election. As a candidate for FE I’m happy to take any questions on my facebook page:

  https://www.facebook.com/JD4FE

• Louise Ankers 28th Oct '14 - 11:04am

  I think the amount of candidates this time round really speaks volumes for the appetite for reform and improvement within the party. I’m in favour of OMOV for committee elections such as this and for voting at conference on motions.

  You can also find me at my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/LouiseAnkersforFE

• Rabi Martins 28th Oct '14 - 11:42am

  Good to see so much interest in the Federal Committee Elections
  I will be giving my high preferences to members who have put down their name for just ONE committee
  on the basis that it demonstrates their key area of interest rather than a desire to just get elected to a Federal Committee regardless of what it does
  Good luck to all though

• Kelly-Marie Blundell 28th Oct '14 - 1:27pm

  I’m delighted to have represented members on FPC for the last two years and would like to continue – to stand up for Liberty, Equality and Community and continue to see through the Manifesto.
  Happy to take questions on my Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/KMBlundell

• Enlight_Bystand 28th Oct '14 - 3:52pm

  Any chance the above could be updated to include the number of positions on each comittee to be elected? I know IU could go digging in the constitutioon to find it, but it seems to make sense to combine it all into one post….

• Caron Lindsay 28th Oct '14 - 11:22pm

  Peter, that information is there, in the headline for each committee.

• Jonathan Brown 28th Oct '14 - 11:44pm

  Well, I may as well get in on this too… I’m standing for election to just one committee; International Relations. It’s my first time standing for any of them. As well as being happy to answer questions via my facebook page, I’m publishing a series of short ‘essays’ (basically just expanding on my manifesto) on why I’m standing and what I hope to achieve:

  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jonathan-Brown-for-International-Relations-Committee/937900992904146?fref=ts

• Enlight_Bystand 29th Oct '14 - 8:50am

  @caron – so they are! Sorry…

• SIMON BANKS 29th Oct '14 - 5:47pm

  It would save space to have a common announcement: the following all say they’re jolly good people and will be happy to answer questions…

  Then I could vote for the ones who said they were evil, twisted beings who would undermine the party and shoot questioners.

• Jon Ball 29th Oct '14 - 6:22pm

  Sorry to disappoint Simon but I won’t admit to being evil and twisted.

  I pass Rabi’s test, though, as I’m only standing for Federal Conference Committee, on which I served previously for 12 years and feel I made a valuable contribution.

  My priority has always been to ensure that Conference remains the democratic heart of the Party where all the key subjects are debated – no matter how controversial.

  In addition, a period off FCC has made me realise how little information emerges from it’s deliberations so if elected this time I will fight to change FCC’s secrecy rules in order to keep Party members better informed and to hold FCC members accountable for their decisions.

• Jonathan Webber 29th Oct '14 - 9:31pm

  Good evening folk,

  I thought I’d just mention that I’m standing for none of those committees at all…

  I’m standing for the English Council Executive Committee. Until recently Chair in the West Midlands, my shtick is my ability to regenerate a region, get the necessary management & funding structures in place with two aims only in mind. First to compete in and to win elections at every level. Second, to serve the Local Parties, their activists, members and supporters who, in my long held view are the heroes of our party.

• Rebecca Taylor 4th Nov '14 - 10:34pm

  As everyone else is putting their pitch in, I might as well too! I am only standing for Federal Policy Committee and I don’t hold any party office so FPC would be my priority (after campaigning to help LibDem MPs & councillors hold their seats next May of course). This is also the first time I have stood for election to any federal party committee.

  I would like to think I bring a fairly unique mix to FPC of:
  – high level policy making experience
  – specific expertise particularly in health & youth policy
  – an international outlook & understanding of how & where EU & national policies intersect
  – political/campaigning experience gained mostly in Yorkshire
  – experience (politically & professionally) of dealing with differences of opinion and building consensus

  Also. I’m still (kind of) young (under 40!), so I bring experience that older members may not have had such as graduating with student loans to pay back and being heavily mortgaged since my mid 20s often without the security of a permanent job. I have a non political day job in a cancer charity working on an NHS led programme on early diagnosis of cancer.

  PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR FIRST PREFERENCE VOTE!

• Robert Adamson 8th Nov '14 - 1:54pm

  I disagree with Rabi (which is unusual!) . I have TIME to serve on more than one of these committees as I’m not working or in an elected office. I am willing and able to give a lot of effort to try and help the party. This isn’t an ego trip or a way to entertain myself with a committee that happens to interest me. There are others who, like me, are candidates for more than one committee and I applaud their dedication to the party.