Those nice people at Your Liberal Britain have already changed the way we do things as a party. Their initiatives to help us create our vision of what a Liberal Britain could look like have been incorporated into the policy making process.
Now they are turning their hands to a new challenge for the General Election.
When you share something on social media, and it’s been liked by loads of people, have you had a look and seen whether it’s actually been liked or shared by someone who isn’t already a Liberal Democrat?
Social media can be a bit of an echo chamber. That’s why Your Liberal Britain has decided to tackle that to widen the reach of Lib Dem messages.
YLB’s founder Jim Williams told me:
The thinking behind the initiative is that thousands of Lib Dem supporters work hard every day to make the case for the Liberal Democrats online – but all too many struggle to break out of their echo chambers. And they often lack access to the party’s messages, not knowing which topic to best tackle at any one time.
The Online Champions community empowers these activists to break out of their echo chambers and speak directly to voters, not just to their friends.
We train our 200+ volunteers to win votes and swat aside trolls, using all the latest messages and resources from the party. And we connect these activists together, to form a tight-knit community that supports one another online.
The good thing about this is that you can do it at those times of day when it would be rude to deliver leaflets.
Online champions really seem to enjoy their work.
If you think it sounds interesting, you can sign up to become a volunteer here.
* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social
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The big new question doing the online rounds that ‘progressives’ are struggling with;
The British Empire was condemned for plundering the resources of the third world and yet British ‘progressives’ celebrate plundering the third world for it’s vital skilled Human resources.
Most migrants to the UK do not return to their impoverished homelands before someone employs this very lame retort.
Surely it’s a pretty extremist position to idly stand aside whilst this tragic plundering of Doctors and Engineers from Bulgaria and Botswana continues?
Surely better to train the many British youngsters for the world of nursing that might otherwise face a life on the dole or enduring an undignified job
I disagree with the articles thrust.
I have roughly 140 facebook friends plus probably eight or nine hundred in closed groups, of which less than ten are Liberal Democrats. Now I am not suggesting that my facebook persona is typical but even if the division is 1LD-5 others that means that. whenever a LIb Dem posts a liberal meme four out of every five of their friends would in all probability have seen it for the first time.
Echo chamber, facebook is not
Just seen the constituency polling for 70% + Remain Battersea.
Stop Brexit candidate 17%
Lib Dem candidate 8%
What’s going on ?
That poll put the Lib Dems on 13% (up 9) when a more conventional question was asked (11% when candidates named). Which is broadly in line with the “doing well in London” position of other polls.
Battersea: not an obvious target for us and a traditionally Labour area. It’s a perfectly rational choice for an anti-Brexit Labour supporter to stick with Labour in a seat they reasonable conclude would be between Labour and Tories and to try to influence Labour. Besides, this election is not only about Brexit. It never was going to be. There has never been a general election fought just on one big issue, not even February 1974, not even the two 1910 elections.
Richard makes some fair points, but he’s clearly thinking about the doctors and not the care assistants. I’m not sure where his assertion about migrants staying comes from, but I suspect it’s true of doctors and dentists and not of agricultural and packing workers. Yes, of course, we need to train more doctors and provide the resources for them to work.
I don’t hear any criticism of the Prevent programme from the Muslims that I know. They don’t even raise the subject. Instead, they need to be told that they mustn’t take the shame for these atrocities on their own shoulders. They don’t object to young girls , with kitten ears on their heads, enjoying music and dance. It could have been one of their own children killed or harmed by those fascists of a particular strand of Islam, who seek control over every aspects of a persons life.
Why do politicians always listen to those with the loudest voices? A former school governor of my acquaintance was very impressed by the Prevent course she attended.