Archive for willie rennie
The Liberal Democrat challenges for 2012: Treating supporters as active participants
To mark the start of 2012, we’re running a series of posts over consecutive days on the main challenges for the Liberal Democrats in 2012. I’ve already written about the four priorities for the party’s new Chief Executive, Tim Gordon, but as the Liberal Democrats are more than just the one man whilst he has [...]
The four things the new party Chief Executive must prioritise
Dear Tim, Congratulations on your appointment as Chief Executive of the Liberal Democrats. You take up the post in tough but exciting times. Even if you were not one person but a superhuman army of fifty you would not be able to do all the things party members and staff are saying they want from [...]
Well done Willie Rennie – involving party members in a campaign
Having written before about the need and benefits for the Liberal Democrats of treating members and supporters as active participants rather than passive spectators when it comes to pushing for the policies we want (and even suggested an email from Vince Cable), it was great to see Willie Rennie doing just this. As Caron Lindsay [...]
Lib Dems in the news
Willie Rennie has stopped being a Special Advisor and is reported to be planning to run for the Scottish Parliament.
Welsh Assembly member Mick Bates has pleaded not guilty to assault charges.
Daily View 2×2: 28 February, featuring Luciana Berger, homeopathy, Ethiopia and more
It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. It’s time for the latest news from Ethiopia, but first the blogs from the UK. Today we also have a special Luciana Berger update (never let it be said she’s going for the quiet competent candidate approach).
It’s also good to note that Liberal Democrat MPs have not been remiss in keeping [...]
Two-thirds of key helicopters for Afghanistan unavailable
A news release from the party pings into my inbox:
Almost 2/3rd of the RAF’s Merlin helicopters, which the Government has hailed as a key part of increasing capacity and ‘ideally suited’ to Afghanistan, are incapable of carrying out their planned missions, according to figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats.
Answers to Parliamentary Questions have shown that [...]
The inside story of how the Lib Dem general election manifesto will be drawn up
The debates and disputes around the Liberal Democrats’ Bournemouth conference give a taste of what is likely to be a tricky process of drawing up the party’s manifesto for the next general election.
Formally, there is a three part process to that manifesto: the manifesto working group chaired by Danny Alexander will present work to the [...]
Willie Rennie is new Campaigns Chair
Willie Rennie has been elected (unopposed) as the new chair of the Liberal Democrats’ Campaigns and Communications Committee (CCC). His predecessor, Ed Davey, announced he was standing down earlier this year.
Willie brings a strong campaigning pedigree to the role, being not only a Parliamentary by-election victor himself (and anyone who can remember the political circumstances [...]
