tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post116819162758094491..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Why the Lib Dems should be careful how they choose their candidatesJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1168248837884049412007-01-08T09:33:00.000+00:002007-01-08T09:33:00.000+00:0045% cut in LDYS grant. But they still have one. Un...45% cut in LDYS grant. But they still have one. Unlike I hear Women liberal democrats? And does anyone know what Ethnic Minority Liberal democrats have this year? I think the grand total is a grant of zilcho from the party this year. <BR/><BR/>It's interesting isn't it that Simon and the boys (and they are mostly boys) at party HQ are SOOOOOOO committed to diversity. Yet they won't allow two small autonomous groups to have their woefully inadequate budgets continued. They use pathetic excuses such as the money can be better used elsewhere. By going to favoured candidates and perhaps being used to bribe locally parties into a quick fix rather than training and laying good solid long term foundations.<BR/><BR/>That's right. By white middle-aged men, who are emotionally illiterate to say the least, and who believe that neither WLD nor EMLD are capable of handling their own money. Whose commitment to diversity needs questioning exactly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1168206107081062402007-01-07T21:41:00.000+00:002007-01-07T21:41:00.000+00:00James, maybe in your day things were better but al...James, maybe in your day things were better but although many good candidates have been in LDYS I doubt that they have become good candidates because of LDYS.<BR/><BR/>I always found national LDYS far too interested in internal party games to be of much use in actually recruiting and training the MPs, Councillors and activists of tomorrow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1168198379857485752007-01-07T19:32:00.000+00:002007-01-07T19:32:00.000+00:00We already have a mechanism for headhunting potent...We already have a mechanism for headhunting potential candidates at university: it's called LDYS and many of our best candidates have come from it.<BR/><BR/>It should be pointed out though that Simon Hughes has presided over a 45% cut in LDYS' grant. Given recent history, that may have been a politically easy thing to do, but I suspect we'll pay for it in the longer term.James Graham (Quaequam Blog!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00319089107820032874noreply@blogger.com