Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Yoof watch.

Tory Bear was right in his hunch that Liberal Youth were in real trouble. It's amazing what drops out of the tree when you shake the branch a little.  After surviving an

attempted coup
, current chairman
Elaine Bagshaw
 (right,) is being given a good run for her money in a bid by
Sara Scarlett
 (below,) to stop Bagshaw being re-elected, but the whole affair is getting rather bitchy and messy. There is a
growing movement
developing amongst the membership calling for the nominations to be re-opened on account that neither of the candidates would be right for the job.
The opposition to Bagshaw is growing daily, especially as this "Vicky Pollard like" media performer (according to Quinton Letts!) can't seem to keep her mouth shut about how great she is. Just a quick scroll of her
campaign group
sees her taking full responsibility for lobbying the Cowley Street great and good single handed, and even claims she can give dear old Vince Cable some advice on the economy. This woman makes the very worst of the CF self aggrandises look tame. TB is amazed that she hasn't started a social action project yet...
Things apparently came to a head at last week's Coventry hustings where the two candidates were questioned on why they were Liberal Democrats, a good question to ask any member. Scarlett gave in interesting answer about growing up as a woman in the Middle East giving her an inherent liberal streak, but it was Chairman Bagshaw that really fluffed it. She rambled on about always being a liberal and there never being an eye opening moment or epiphany. Her vague answer left out one pretty significant fact though...
Tory Bear reckons there must have been something significant that made her jump ship from the Labour Party to the Lib Dems.

7 comments:

R.O.N. said...

Really... if you think that its a serious campaign to R.O.N. maybe you should have a look at the group https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67533705239

LY actually likes contested elections, its this wonderful thing called democracy!

Paul
said...

Hang on...she gave economic advice to Vince 'just tax the rich more' Cable?

Hardly something to proud of! His approach is about as complex as a single-celled amoeba!

Peter Smallwood said...

I hear it has all gone wrong since they lost Paul Seery!

Anonymous said...

What ever happened to Seery anyway?

Anonymous said...

I am at the University of Essex studying a four year degree in Politics and International Relations. It has been a good first year so far but am looking forward to returning to the political front line during the summer.

I have some unfinished buisness.

Martin Shapland
said...
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Chris said...

I think you've been spun a line here.

What we have in Liberal Youth is a open and honest democratic election in which we have a choice between two strong and capable candidates - who have both acted politely and courteously throughout.

No-one is threatening resignation, no-one is spitting bloody on the conference floor, and the RON campaign really isn't serious.

As much as I'm sure you'd love to believe that Liberal Youth is "in real trouble", Tory Bear really is barking up the wrong tree.

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