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A sideways look at a Liberal Democrat institution

By Mark Pack | Wed 6th July 2011 - 10:25 am

Chances are, if you’ve been to a Liberal Democrat event, you’ve bought a raffle ticket or two. Now don’t get me wrong. I like raffles. Some of my best friends run raffles. I’ve even won two raffle prizes in the last year. But for such a popular Liberal Democrat activity, we are often surprisingly poor at running them.

In perhaps three raffles out of five, by the time you get to the final few prizes, just about everyone in the room (if they are still paying attention) is impatient for the raffle to end, with too many prizes then exacerbated by …

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Posted in Op-eds and Party policy and internal matters | Also tagged bermondsey & old southwark liberal democrats, camden liberal democrats and featured | 8 Comments

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