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The “Carrigan-Pack” motion passes at the Unlock Democracy AGM
1 comment on The “Carrigan-Pack” motion passes at the Unlock Democracy AGMI wrote last month that given how I had expressed my dissatisfaction with the process used by Unlock Democracy, the constitutional reform campaigning organisation, to elect members to its governing council the least I could do was to turn up at their AGM to support those who trying to do something about it. So yesterday I spent a more enjoyable day than expected at Unlock Democracy’s AGM held at the NCVO HQ near King’s Cross.…
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More on Unlock Democracy’s internal elections
Earlier this year I blogged about my dissatisfaction with the process used by Unlock Democracy, the constitutional reform campaigning organisation, to elect members to its governing council. I was unhappy with the way the rules prevented campaigning and made it really difficult to choose between the candidates available. I made a contrast with my experience of last year’s electoral reform society elections and talked about how the Liberal Democrats have recently implemented some much more,…
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The Unlock Democracy council elections: an apology and a proposal
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a somewhat critical post here about my experience of the recent Unlock Democracy council elections. The Director of that organisation, Peter Facey, wrote a comment in response to that post. Unfortunately, for some reason, that comment got caught in the blog’s spam trap and I only noticed it was there at the end of last week. So I would like to apologise to Peter for missing his response.…
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Random Thoughts for 30th June
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuf that has occured to me between 25th June and 30th June: Bill Rammell has a new job at university – no politics involved An interview with the new Vice Chancellor at the University of Bedfordshire. David Boyle to head Cabinet Office review of choice in public services This is some of the best news…
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Voting in the Unlock Democracy Council elections
One of my tasks this morning has been filling out my ballot paper for the elections to the governing council of Unlock Democracy. This is not as easy an experience as it should be. Some months ago I received an offer to join Unlock Democracy free for a year. I have a keen interest in issues of constitutional reform and have been impressed by some of the campaigning work the organisation has done, for example…
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Unlock Democracy’s submission on House of Lords reform
I blogged a few weeks ago about the submission I made, via Unlock Democracy, to the consultation on the draft House of Lords reform bill. You can read what I said here. An email from Unlock Democracy tells me that my thoughts, along with those of over 4,000 other people, have been submitted to the joint committee considering this matter in a document 5,409 pages long! They have sent a shorter document that set out…
