OMOV amendment passed at Lib Dem conference: thank you
Thank you to everyone who backed the amendment on one-member one-vote (OMOV) that I organised for Lib Dem conference in Glasgow.
It got voted through by a big majority this afternoon after Duncan Brack moved it and I summated with an, um…, unanswerable logic (see below) – and then conference voted to go ahead with the principle of introducing OMOV subject to the details the amendment set out.
Duncan Brack: 'this should be a training exercise in how not to write a constitutional amendment' #ldconf
— Nick Barlow (@nickjbarlow) October 4, 2014
@markpack at #ldconf clarifying the OMOW ammendment for conference. pic.twitter.com/HijxFMRrqk
— Ian Care LD #FBPE (@care4derby) October 4, 2014
Fun from @markpack explaining clearly that even if you're against his #ldconf amdmt, logical thing to do is actually to vote for it…
— Jeremy Hargreaves (@jeremyharg) October 4, 2014
Very well chaired by @sarahboad OMOV debate – #ldconf voted for principle + for my amendment to get details right
— Mark Pack (@markpack) October 4, 2014
You can watch my speech here:
[…] a different electorate – voting conference reps (although that is due to change in the future thanks to the vote in favour of OMOV at the Glasgow conference). For those elections, electors for whom the party has a working email […]
[…] This ballot is open to voting conference reps (this time round – party conference has agreed in principle to change this for future elections). […]
[…] evidence in more detail than I have done to get to the truth of the matter needs to be done, else the party’s move to OMOV risks being done in a way that also massacres […]
[…] to the Federal Executive: the reaction to the amendment that Duncan Brack and I moved which took quite a few swings at the details of the FE’s proposals for one-member-one-vote […]
[…] autumn in Bournemouth is due to pass the measures to abolish the system of federal conference reps, replacing it with a system of one-member one-vote (OMOV) for conference and the party’s federal […]
[…] As I’ve also mentioned briefly above, OMOV (one-member, one-vote) is coming for both the party’s federal committee elections and for party conference after Glasgow conference voted for the principle, but also for the amendment I organised which pointed out…. […]