As I mentioned earlier, conference is always a mixture of emotions, but none more so than this year. I thought it would be fun if we could do a meme in the comments thread and answer the following questions:
And please feel free to add to the list.
My answers? You’ll have to wait until the end of the day for those!
And to start with I’m tagging Helen Duffett 🙂
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The funniest moment – Tim Farron’s “That’s not my name” at the Glee Club
The saddest moment – I wasn’t there but I’d guess the Cyril Smith tribute
The most embarrassing moment – When the votes of 33 delegates denied day visitors the right to vote at conference
The most challenging moment – Those quiz questions on Monday and Tuesday night
The moment I will remember most – Those scary security people
The funniest moment – The audience during Nick’s speech indicating that – yes they would quite like their children to pay their credit card bill.
The saddest moment – Tim Farron’s tribute to Cyril Smith at the rally
The most embarrassing moment – Me saying to Susan Kramer that I would probably support her as she would have more time than Tim as she was not an MP (whoops)
The most challenging moment – blagging my way into the Sky News reception
The moment I will remember most – Visiting the Beatles story
Funniest : Nick Clegg trying to convince his children that from Leader to DPM was not a demotion.
Saddest : Having to leave earlier.
Embarassing : Talking to the wrong Minister Norman about transport (he was polite though)
Challenging : Follow some of the main hall processes as a first time attendee.
Remember the most : 3 ministers setting off the the metal detector alarms.
The most embarrassing moment – When the votes of 33 delegates denied day visitors the right to vote at conference
Err…. “vote” should read “speak”
•The funniest moment
I know this isn’t what you meant but I went to see Will Howells (Campaigns Dept Online Campaign Guru) perform at a local Comedy Club on the Tuesday evening and he, along with the rest of the acts, were hilarious, as was the sight of various Campaigns Officers downing a ludicrous quantity of shots afterwards.
Tim Farron’s rally speeach was also very funny.
•The saddest moment
Seeing the Neil Trafford Award being awarded at the Campaigns Dept event. I still struggle when I’m reminded of Neil’s passing.
•The most embarrassing moment (OK, so I know its only me has them!)
Nope – don’t remember any of those, must just be you Linda 😉
•The most challenging moment
It was a bit of a struggle to stay awake during Tuesday, having stayed up a bit late on Monday night, but nothing particularly challenging.
•The moment I will remember most
Several! Talking to my long-standing friend Jeremy Browne in the early hours of Wednesday morning about how long we had been campaigning for the party and how it feels that we have finally got into government.
(Also: When Nick came on stage for his Leader’s speech, seeing the Redcar team win the ‘Highest Swing’ Award at the Campaigns Dept event and the point on Wednesday morning that we realised we had stayed up so late it was time for breakfast 😉 )
The funniest moment – Will Howells doing a wee stand up at the Campaigns Department meeting on the Friday night (9pm to midnight in case people thought we were there having fun).
The saddest moment – Remembering Neil Trafford while talking to Jeanette Sunderland, who the day before had won the Neil Trafford award. Neil is sorely missed.
The most embarrassing moment (OK, so I know its only me has them!) No Linda, I turned up 24 hours early for the Candidates reception, and
The most challenging moment – Leading the press pack and Nick out the hall after Nick’s speech!
The moment I will remember most – When an exhibitor came up and said in all the years he had been attending conference he had never been so well looked after (I had a great team).
The funniest moment – Vince Cable starting his speech with ‘Good morning, comrades’
The saddest moment – realising that I’d left a perfectly good lunch in my hotel fridge when I left
The most embarrassing moment – walking into the wrong fringe meeting, finding myself being introduced to the Indian High Commissioner then having to leave immediately to get to the right meeting in time
The most challenging moment – giving out leaflets in the very cold rain on Sunday
The moment I will remember most – four of my political heroes, plus Polly Toynbee, all speaking at the Social Liberal Forum fringe
Funniest: being confused with my Mum who was also a delegate (actually, on reflection, not so funny)
Saddest: Simon Hughes talking in his speech about the late Hilary Wines (former Lib Dem leader in Southwark)
Embarrassing: stripping off at security until they discovered I had metal bits in my shoes which made the machine buzz
Challenging: the ‘positive action is evil’ brigade at the diversity debate
Most remember: daughter’s glee when I brought her home a ‘Yellow Submarine’ T-Shirt
@Chris Stanbra – given you were on the winning quiz team on Monday and the runner up team on Tuesday (and you weren’t in an over sized team) they must have been more challenging for other people.