Questions for FCC and FPC candidates

[miss_s_b]

Answers are posted in a separate post per candidate and linked to from the (somewhat huge) list of candidates below:

Aladdin Ayesh - FPC
Alec Dauncey - FPC
Andrew Wiseman - FCC
Antony Hook - FPC
Arnie Gibbons - FCC
Brian Mathew - FPC
Carl Minns - FPC
Cecilia Phillips - FPC
Charles West - Both
Chris Carrigan - FPC
Chris Maines - FCC
Chris Rennard - FPC
Dave Goddard - FPC
David Boyle - FPC
David Grace - Both
David Naghi - FCC
David Rendle - FCC
Dinti Batstone - FPC
Duncan Brack - FPC
Elliot Shubert - FCC
Evan Harris - Both
Ewan Hoyle - FPC
Gareth Epps - Both
George Potter - FCC
Gordon Lishman - FPC
Greg Judge - FPC
Helen Flynn - FPC
James Sandbach - FPC
Janice Turner - Both
Jenny Woods - FPC
Jeremy Hargreaves - FPC
Jill Shortland - FPC
Jim Wallace - FPC
Jo Hayes - FPC
Jon Ball - FCC
Jon Bamborough - FCC
Jon Hunt - FPC
Jonathan Hunt - Both
Jonathan Marks - FPC
Julia Church (nee Goldsworthy) - FPC
Julie Smith - FPC
Justine McGuinness - FCC
Kelly-Marie Blundell - Both
Kevin Sefton - FPC
Kristin Castle - FPC
Lee Dargue - FPC
Linda Jack - Both
Liz Lynne - FCC
Lord (Phil) Willis - FPC
Louise Bloom - FPC
Lucy Care - FPC
Mark Pack - FPC
Mark Platt - FPC
Mark Thompson - FPC
Martin Tod - FPC
Michael German - FPC
Mike Tuffrey - FPC
Munira Wilson - FPC
Neville Farmer - FPC
Nick Thornsby - FPC
Nigel Jones - FCC
Pash Nandhra - FCC
Paul Hienkens - FCC
Paul Tilsley - FCC
Paula Keaveney - FCC
Pauline Pearce - FCC
Prateek Buch - FPC
Qassim Afzal - Both
Rabi Martins - FPC
Richard Fagence - FCC
Richard Flowers - FPC
Robert Adamson - Both
Sal Brinton - Both
Sandra Gidley - FCC
Sarah Harding - FPC
Shas Sheehan - FCC
Simon McGrath - FCC
Simon Pike - FPC
Steve Coltman - FPC
Sue Vincent - FPC
Susan Gaszczak - FCC
Susan Juned - FPC
Tahir Maher - FPC
Theo Butt-Philip - FPC
Tom Wood - FCC
Tony Greaves - FPC
Zoe O'Connell - FCC

If you're on the list of candidates and you haven't had an email from me, that's because I haven't been able to find an email address for you or the email address I have found is wrong. Feel free to copy and paste the questions from below and email me yourself at jennieDOTriggATgmailDOTcom

Questions for FCC

1. What ratio do you think is the ideal balance for keynote speeches, policy debates and Q&A sessions on the main stage at conference?
2. How do you plan to make conference more inclusive?
3. What is your favourite conference venue and why?
4. What is your opinion on the proposal to make conference one member, one vote?
5. What would you do to make conference more affordable for the less well-off within our party?
6. What is your opinion on the proposal to allow non-attending members to participate in conference - remote voting, speeches by skype, etc.?
7. How much consideration do you think FCC should give to avoiding embarassing our frontbench when it selects motions and amendments for debate?
8. What are your views on whether outside experts should be allowed or encouraged to speak on the main stage?
9. Where do you stand on conference security in general and accreditation in particular?
10. If elected, how do you plan to engage with the wider party?
11. Are you standing for any other committees, if so which ones, and if elected to more than one, how do you plan to divide your time?

Questions for FPC

1. Which of the following activities do you consider the most dangerous and why?
   - taking a single ecstasy tablet
   - taking an advanced motorcycle riding test
   - giving birth
2. What four pledges would you put on the front of the next Lib Dem manifesto?
3. A genie appears and tells you that you can remove one law and make one law; what would you remove from the statute book and what would you add to the statute book?
4. What balance should the committee give to the views of the leadership, the parliamentary panels and the membership in setting policy priorities?
5. How would you change the party’s procedures on gathering and analysing evidence when formulating policy?
6. Which is more important - freedom from ignorance, poverty or conformity?
7. Are you a member of any (S)AOs or other pressure groups which might give us an insight into your policy priorities?
8. Which external bodies would you like to see audit the manifesto to see if our policies are workable?
9. What proposals do you have to improve the process of negotiating policy priorities for a coalition agreement in the event of another hung parliament?
10. If elected, how do you plan to engage with the wider party?
11. Are you standing for any other committees, if so which ones, and if elected to more than one how do you plan to divide your time?

Comments

[rmc28]

I really appreciate the effort you are putting in here - many thanks.

[miss_s_b]

It's all to keep me ahead of Mark Reckons in the Wikio charts ;)

[gominokouhai]

If there are going to be dozens of these, could we have them behind cut tags, please?

[miss_s_b]

I've been vacillating about it. It's going to be linked to by people who aren't familiar with DW terminology. II understand the call for them in terms of f-list spammage, though...

[gominokouhai]

Links to individual posts will still show the full thing. And it's not as if DW's interface is hard to understand.

[miss_s_b]

What, even for Lib Dems? ;)

OK, cuts are in place.

[gominokouhai]

My flist's bandwidth thanks you.

[pseudomonas]

Also, could you give them a tag not used for other things, then we can link to the whole set (and I think people with paid DW accounts can filter that set off their default view)?

[miss_s_b]

THAT'S a good plan, yes.

[miss_s_b]

OK, they are all now tagged http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/tag/internal+party+elections+2012

[pseudomonas]

:) you rock.

[miss_s_b]

Also metal and jazz. And sometimes classical ;)

[rmc28]

Aren't tags great!

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Having just finally finished the process of putting all my votes in, I wanted to leave a note saying a huge thank you to you for doing all the hard work of chasing up and posting these responses. It has helped me enormously in deciding how to vote, especially for FCC. You got some very revealing answers! Excellent work.

[miss_s_b]

Thank you, tis nice to be appreciated :)