Liberal Vision

So, what did you actually decide to do?

Pictured above are the members of the Liberal Democrat Federal Executive Committee.

Few of them are household names, but they are – by and large – committed and hard-working LibDem activists and they have been successfully elected (in most cases) to the party’s most important committee.

The committee met on Monday night at 5.30pm in the midst of the most enormous political and constitutional crisis our country has faced in a generation at least.

Newly-elected President Ros Scott predicted a full and frank exchange of views.

Exchanging views is all well and good, but what have the FE actually decided to do about the collapse in faith in British politicians and some of the allegations against our own Parliamentarians? Two days after the conclusion of the FE meeting, many members are waiting with bated breath to learn of the outcome.

Ros Scott emailed me on Tuesday morning saying the FE’s conclusions should be available in the course of the day. But there’s obviously been a hold-up. An insider tells me that members might be receiving an email from Ros later today or tonight. Let’s hope it’s a bold and forthright statement and the party can move on to the wider issues of cleaning up and reforming British politics.

P.S. We were not able to track down photos of all members of the FE – and we may even have got one or two of them wrong. A full list of FEC members is available here. English Party Chair Brian Orrell was one such member for whom we could not track down a photo. Brian’s a top bloke and as all true fans of Doctor Who will know, he played the role of a Cyberman in the 1985 classic story “Attack of the Cybermen”. We include a picture of a Colin Baker-era Cyberman in tribute to his contribution to British science fiction.