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| Danielle Grufferty - candidate for Guild President |
[Feb. 2nd, 2008|04:13 am] |
Pictured in the photo above is Dannielle Grufferty (3rd from left in the photo). She is currently standing for Guild of Students (student union) president at the University of Liverpool in the elections from March 5th to March 7th 2008. The photo is taken at Woodchurch Leisure Centre with the Prime Minister and Danielle is in a group of known members of the Labour party and Labour supporting students.
It raises some interesting questions. Is Dannielle Grufferty too close to Labour, or am I jumping to conclusions?
What are her political views and will they affect her priorities after election (eg on tuition fees)? Whereas her views on refugees etc are well known; her views on other public policy areas are less so. Did Gordon Brown not graduate himself in 1972, at a time when he didn't have to pay tuition fees. Why did Labour bring in this controversial policy which has led to a lower number of applications to university from people from a lower socioeconomic class?
I have confidence in Danielle to keep politics out of the campaign she's running (as I feel she is trying to do) and treat students of every political persuasion equally.
Note: The author is chair of the University of Liverpool Liberal Democrat Society.
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Well the Liberal Democrats are up to 21% in the polls (with the initial article reading 23% initially!) which is much improved. Vince Cable is doing a good job as acting leader.
However one of our two Liberal Democrat MEPs here in North West England (Saj Karim) has defected to the Conservatives. This it seems is partly in response to party members putting him 2nd on the list of candidates for 2009. So as he's left the party now, whoever was number 3 gets bumped up to position 2 (or maybe we'll just have to run the whole thing again). Personally I wish Cllr. Flo Clucas (Liverpool councillor) hadn't withdrawn her name from the list. She lost votes because of the postal strike in Liverpool (the timing of which was unfortunate).
Oh well, at least at the university our Liberal Democrat Society is going from strength to strength - we're going to have a social after the meeting tomorrow and Christmas Party the week after. Students like a good party, especially if it involved alcohol! :D |
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[Nov. 21st, 2007|04:27 am] |
21st November 2007 Guld of Students building, University of Liverpool post-Liberal Democrat Society meeting.
Left: Rhodri Morgan
Middle: Me, yes, this blogger
Right: Georgia Mears-Bullen |
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