Interesting Links for 06-04-2015
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andrewducker- Neil deGrasse Tyson on religion and belief systems
- It's looking like Lib-Dem activists might block any deal with the Conservatives
- Shared parental leave law comes into effect
- Alec Guiness writes to a friend about Star Wars
- The Science of Happiness
- A Grand Juror Speaks - how prosecutors always get their way
- Oh look, latest figures show electoral register has gone up, not down
- The Princess Diaries is Pretty Woman for little girls
- On what we mean when we say 'pagan fertility symbols'
- Is 10% of the population really gay?
- SNP in line for multi-million pound windfall if it becomes third-largest party
- Sinn Féin committed to referendum on Irish unity
- An atheist lists six things that could make her believe in God
- The pale blue dot and some selfies in space
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Date: 2015-04-07 10:13 pm (UTC)It's 2/3rds of Parliamentarians, if they say no it's 2/3s of Exec, after that's it's a majority vote at conference, that's the whole point of having the expense of a conference.
The rest of it's dubious at best, but if the MPs wanted to do it in sufficient numbers they don't even need a conference (although they'd likely call one, good for morale).
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Date: 2015-04-07 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-07 11:51 pm (UTC)When the article said "about 50 of 1500" voted no, there were no media present, it was more like 20, I was at the back of the room, wasn't a counting steward but was stewarding.
There are many reasons Ros is the best President the party ever had, forcing the special conference and making sure the entire party owned the coalition as we'd definitely agreed to it was one of them. That she couldn't stand working with Clegg and didn't go for a second term is fairly obvious.
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Date: 2015-04-08 07:22 am (UTC)Well done to Ros Scott at the time - without getting the conference on board I doubt we'd have lasted this long!
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Date: 2015-04-12 07:57 pm (UTC)http://www.markpack.org.uk/130878/the-triple-lock-lib-dem-procedures-in-case-of-a-hung-parliament/
When it says "Upon the submission of such a motion, the Federal Conference Committee shall convene a conference to consider the motion at the earliest practicable opportunity or shall include the motion in the agenda of a conference currently in session or imminently to start."
Does "a conference" mean "a conference of all MPs", "a conference of all the MPs+Exec" or "A special conference"?
Because it sounds different to your explanation of last time, so I'd like to have some idea.
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Date: 2015-04-13 06:42 am (UTC)Party constitution is fairly clear elsewhere in defining a conference, that's a meeting to which all members are entitled to attend and all duly elected/appointed voting reps get to vote on any substantive motions—I'm not one this year, forgot to make sure I got in as one at the last AGM.