Caron Lindsay

Scottish Lib Dem Conference in tweets

By | Sun 28th February 2016 - 6:01 pm

I’ve just been going through the tweets from Scottish Lib Dem Conference. Here’s a selection.

Now, who’s that chairing the debate?

A stop on Willie and Alex’s World Tour of Nurseries

But some people couldn’t concentrate on the debate..

Two views on tracking:

Party legend Derek Barrie has been running elections since the early 1960s, but he’s never done this before:

This is per primary school child:

An important vote pleases a children’s charity.

And on to matters constitutional, an attempt to get Alistair Carmichael to decimate himself?

Our fall from grace in May meant that we couldn’t legitimately elect a deputy leader because it would require a second MP to nominate him. However, this anomaly was rectified by an amendment requiring 1/10 of the MPs to nominate the Deputy Leader. So Alistair can over-nominate.

But not everyone was happy with that change:

Every time Alison McInnes’s name was mentioned at Conference, there was a massive outburst of spontaneous applause. There are very few people who are happy that she’s only second on the North East list:

And then look who showed up..

The hall was really pretty.

And what did Tim talk about?

He’s not chuffed with the SNP at all:

I love Millicent’s LibDemFightback necklace

Scottish Lib Dem Women gave their annual award for the person who had done most to improve diversity in the party to Willie Rennie:

One new member went home happy:

And one absent friend was very much on all of our minds.

* 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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