The new LDV members’ survey is now live. So if you are one of the c.1,500 registered members of the Liberal Democrat Voice forum — and any paid-up party member is welcome to join — then you now have the opportunity to make your views known.
Questions we’re asking this month include:
- your views on military intervention in Syria;
- what you think about nuclear power and ‘fracking’;
- other conference hot-topics like tuition fees, the 50p top-rate of tax, and the ‘bedroom tax’;
- are you in favour of HS2?
- your views on Nick Clegg’s leadership leading figures within the Lib Dems;
- what you think of the Coalition’s performance to date;
- PLUS your chance to vote for a number of the Lib Dem Voice Awards 2013 to be handed out at our fringe event this Saturday.
It should take no longer than 10 minutes minutes to fill in. All registered members of the Forum should have today been e-mailed with a unique link to take you to the survey. If you haven’t received yours, or if you are signing up to the Forum now, please drop Ryan Cullen a line at [email protected]. Please do check your spam folder first, though, in case it’s ended up there!
NB: we had an initial glitch with the survey system. Many apologies to those keen members who voted early, but not in this case often. If your votes weren’t accepted when you tried first thing today, please try again using the same link. With luck, the system will have saved your responses so you won’t be starting from scratch. Sorry again for the irritation of your temporary disenfranchisement (and my thanks, as ever, to our technical and design editor, Ryan Cullen, for riding to the rescue).
We’ll publish the results in a few days’ time. You can access the results from our previous LDV members surveys by clicking here — and you can access a Google spreadsheet of our ‘Coalition tracker’ and ‘leading Lib Dems’ ratings here.
* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.
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It took a bit long to complete this Stephen. I was going to provide feedback privately, but then my love for transparency made me realise it is best to give people a heads up about the time cost of this! :).
The ranking is what took the most time, but I didn’t realise until the end that not all of them had to be completed fully!
Why is the survey background blue with some (oak?) trees in the top banner?
More soothing than orange, sure, but quite close to a possible Tory conference backdrop, I thought….
Maria, the theme was off the shelf with a quick tweak as we needed to get it up and running asap after the party survey system went down.
Can I also remind everyone who hasn’t seen an invite yet to please check their spam folders. Gmail will put it there unless you tell it otherwise.
Well done for getting the survey up, and for all the voting questions via preferences, which is a major improvement on previous years.
However… There’s the usual ludicrous question that always gets my goat – the ‘next Coalition’ that never gives the option of ‘Go with whichever party is willing to offer the most Lib Dem sort of deal’ but just buys into the ‘We don’t really stand for anything’ media narrative of asking, ‘All right, so are you really Labour or Tory?’ I glower, again.
The question that shocked me, though, was the push-polling. Seriously? Have you not considered any sort of good practice at all? Immediately before the question on Internet censorship you push-poll with one along the lines of ‘Oh! Porn! Think of the tiny, tiny children!’
I may be misjudging you, and you may have split the survey into random groups to study the effects of push-polling: if, say, I was in the ‘Daily Mail headline’ group, but another group were pushed with a question like ‘To what extent is it damaging for the nanny state to treat all adults, even in households without children, as if they were children and police their internet use?’ Perhaps a third group were prepped with something like ‘To what extent is it damaging to family life for the state to remove parental responsibility and directly control children’s activities in the home?’ And of course there’d be a control sample who were just asked the question without any deeply biased question put in front of it to pervert the answer.
But if that wasn’t your intention, this is push-polling and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
…On the other hand, I should also say that that was unnecessarily confrontational and I should be ashamed of myself. Sorry – writing in a particularly grumpy moment.
The point I would like to make is that, while you probably didn’t set out to distort the result, this sort of biased pre-poll questions is recognised as having that effect, and you should be careful to avoid it in future.
I tried to fill it in three times, as twice it timed out as I was filling it inbetween doing other tasks. The third time I saved the half completed survey and then was unable to finish it off as I couldn’t find my saved work.
If someone can point me to where I can find the saved file I would be most grateful.
I would like to take part but haven’t been sent an invite to do so. Strange, as I’ve taken part before.
my comments are regarding the war in syria what is the world going to do about the plight of the 20,000 palastinians being starved to death in syria right now is president obama and david cameron going to sit down and eat a great big decedent new years dinner while these people are forced to eat dirt .this is the 21st cenury why in gods name is the world still just sitting idely by what are you waiting for go in and kick some a—- you are allowing the regime to commit mass murder on a massive scale daily with arial bombardment killing thousands of innocent people woman and children this is genoside on a massive scale .please do something NOW it is absalutely discussding the world should act now then maybe all those millions of syrian refugees will be able to go back home and hopefully start rebiulding there lives . MR OBAMA your speech about the great Nelson Mandella was unforgettable now is your chance to show the world how great you are…………………………………..