Liberal Voice of the Year?

[miss_s_b]

So, apparently the choices on this were picked by party members via the LDV members' survey. I don't recall ever being asked who my choice was, which leads me to believe that the question must have been asked in the survey I had technical problems with. Now, I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat here, but I can't help but wonder who else got technical problems on that survey because, seriously, party, you think Mark cocking Littlewood is more deserving than Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir or Helle Thorning-Schmidt or Michele Bachelet?

FFS.

Nine nominees and the one woman is Hillary bloody Clinton. Sometimes I truly despair.

Comments

[thepotterblogger.blogspot.com]

What's even more depressing is the LabourList woman of the year - where there seems to have been a rush of people all voting for some attractive American celebrity while ignoring plenty of other people who have all done much, much more than attend a few charity funraisers.

[burkesworks]

Another illustration of why I stopped drinking the yellow Kool-Aid and left the Party. What an uninspiring and largely illiberal bunch! Though to be fair, previous winners of this award hardly fill me with enthusiasm. Good calls on all the three women you mentioned by the way, especially Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.

Can't find the LabourList list George; who's on it? That is one difficult site to navigate.

[andrewhickey.info]

I don't recall ever seeing the question either, oddly. I haven't had any technical problems with any of the surveys, but I don't think I always receive the emails about them.
I'd probably have chosen Breanna Manning, who unlike Assange actually did the hard work of exposing the war crimes in the Wikileaks thing, and didn't rape anyone, and who's been rewarded by being tortured and kept in solitary for years by her government and being misgendered by the campaign to help free her.

[miss_s_b]

I have no clue; I never go there because I find it even more depressing than LDV.

[miss_s_b]

She's a great choice, yes.

[http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/]

I vaguely recall seeing the question, but not answering it because I hardly ever read LDV now, and couldn't think of anyone at the time. If I'd known Littlewood's acolytes were going to try and fix it for him, I'd probably have thought harder.

And I'd never heard of Breanna (as opposed to Bradley) Manning until now.

[andrewhickey.info]

Yeah, I'd support an Anyone But Littlewood campaign here, frankly.
Breanna is the name that Manning prefers to go by, but the campaign to free her has been consistently misgendering her (presumably in order to avoid confusion, as she's been charged under her birth name). Or at least, that's the best anyone can make out given the lack of information because of the way she's being treated.
I'm no great lover of Wikileaks, and think Assange a truly toxic specimen of humanity, but anyone willing to face the death penalty in order to expose war crimes deserves our support.

[livingonwords.blogspot.com]

I agree. I am voting in a Brewster's millionesque way for 'none of the above'. http://livingonwords.blogspot.com/2012/01/backing-none-of-above-in-liberal-voice.html

Sorry

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to disappoint you all. There's always next year, hey? I'm enormously flattered by the suggestion that I have 288 "acolytes". If only...!

Re: Sorry

[miss_s_b]

Mr Littlewood, I presume?