Archive for Federal Policy Committee
A double dose of thank you: Federal Policy Committee and Unlock Democracy
Two good results (from my perspective!) today. First, in Liberal Democrats news I was elected to the Federal Policy Committee, being the fifth person elected in the count after Chris Rennard, Evan Harris, Duncan Brack and Lucy Care. Second, in Unlock Democracy news – what got christened the “Carrigan-Pack” motion at its AGM to improve [...]
Polls close Wednesday in Liberal Democrat committee elections
Hurry, hurry, hurry: the ballot closes at noon on Wednesday for the Liberal Democrat federal committee elections. If you’re voting by post, it is best to make sure the envelope is with the Royal Mail on Monday at the latest. If you are voting electronically, you have until noon on Wednesday – but don’t leave [...]
Liberal Democrat federal committee elections: Q&A
A few questions are repeatedly coming up about the elections currently being held for various Liberal Democrat federal party committees. So I’ve put together this unofficial Q&A. Unofficial, but I hope helpful and neutral, save for the last question… Q. What posts are up for election? A. 15 posts on the Federal Executive (FE), 15 [...]
Federal Policy Committee: here’s my manifesto
This is what is going in the ballot mailing to Liberal Democrat conference reps, winging its way through the post as you read this: You can also find out more in the Q+A I recently took part in: What would I put on the front page of the 2015 manifesto? If you like what you [...]
What would I put on the front page of the 2015 manifesto?
In a great example of what can be done now that the party’s election rules have been relaxed, over on her blog Jennie Rigg is posting answers to the questions she has sent to all Liberal Democrats standing for either the Federal Policy Committee (FPC) or Federal Conference Committee (FCC). As I’m running for FPC, [...]
Federal Policy Committee: paperwork safely accepted
Rule #1 of elections is you can’t win if you’re not on the ballot paper. So I’ve done my usual small sigh of relief on receiving confirmation that my nomination for the Federal Policy Committee has been safely accepted. Ballot papers get sent out to all voting conference representatives on 15th October (one of the [...]
Federal Policy Committee elections: this time I’m standing
Later this month ballot papers will be going out for various Liberal Democrat committees, and this time I’m throwing my hat into the ring and standing for Federal Policy Committee. If you’d like to find out more about why I’m standing, do take a look at my Facebook page, the imaginatively titled Dr. Mark Pack [...]
First of the new style Federal Policy Committee reports published
Following the series of questions from me to the party’s federal committees at the party’s Spring conference, all the major committees promised to provide written reports in future after each of their full committee meetings. The first such Federal Executive report has been posted up in the members-only forum on this site (see the Party [...]
Two useful steps forward in party business at conference
Despite a resurgence in recent years, the tabling of questions to party committee reports at Liberal Democrat conference is still very much a minority sport. So much so that 100% of questions to the Federal Policy Committee came from a certain North London Doctor with an penchant for chocolate… The questions do however provide a [...]
Should the way members of federal committees vote be public?
At the end of my post on the Federal Executive’s decision that the Liberal Democrats should (mostly) not fight police commissioner elections, a decision at odds with the views of party members we surveyed, I made reference to the fact that the details of such votes are not published and usually remain confidential. Sometimes news [...]
