Mike Dixon took over as Lib Dem CEO just before the General Election. He’s had to deal with an unexpected election, a change of leader and president and the impact of a global pandemic on our operations.
Mark Pack took over as Party President in January.
It’s been an emotional, tumultuous, frenetic few months for the party. From the crushing disappointment of the General Election to the recent cancellation of our York conference and the postponement of the leadership election.
Mike and Mark will be taking questions from party members in an online Q & A on Tuesday night. If you are a member, you should have received an invitation to register in your email March newsletter.
Had the York conference gone ahead, they would have done this at some ridiculously early hour and very few people would have turned up.
However, nobody will have a hangover at 6:30 on a Tuesday night and, let’s face it, we’re all stuck at home unless we’re working in a key job.
It is important to hold those in powerful positions in the party to account – so please can as many of you as possible turn up for this.
* 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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While many people are at home, with lots of time on their hands, we should give some thought to Post Pandemic Politics.
We cannot return to “business as usual” either in the way we work, travel, socialise, take care of ourselves and others, improve the economy, develop policies, campaign, or act as a party.
For example, the volume of unnecessary international travel and commuting could be reduced for environmental and health reasons as many employers and individuals now realise that for many, not all, there is a new way of working. The way we all look after our own health and wellbeing, if changed, would create a massive opportunity for freeing up capacity in an overstretched NHS.
The way the way the party works, committees meet and make decisions needs to move into the 21st century. now is the time to explore how.
Nobody knows how long we will be “locked down” but when it is all over we should have given plenty of thought to way we want to live in the future.
I have mentioned before on LDV the number of deaths directly related to smoking as being between 80,000 and 100,00 per year. Can we really return to that being the acceptable norm, selling and taxing a product that puts pressure that puts on the NHS year in year out, when the country has nearly shut down and emergency hospitals are being built because there is a threat of possibly 20,000 deaths due to the current pandemic?
I suspect that other parties might be happy to return to “business as usual” but we should offer a new kind of politics for the post pandemic age.
@ John Barrett “the number of deaths directly related to smoking as being between 80,000 and 100,00 per year”.
Yes, to which could be added excess alcohol and junk food. I still reflect, John, on the reluctance of the Scottish Lib Dems in Holyrood (Willie excepting) to support minimum pricing because of the financial lobbying and donations/sponsorship of the Scotch Whiskey Association.