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Robert Adamson 1 Robert Adamson 1 Robert lives in Yorkshire with his wife, Eileen. He has 2 adult daughters from his first marriage. He trained civil servants and emergency service personnel, has produced award-winning videos, is the author of many training books, and helped in the development of an internationally acclaimed model for inter-personal skills training. Politically he has been a candidate for Europe and Westminster and in local He campaigns on environmental issues and disability matters (he has Multiple Sclerosis). Robert is experienced as a public speaker, in using inter-personal skills and in team-building. Re-Elect (Kas) Qassim AFZAL ONE FPC, 2015 Develop a distinctive, progressive and independent policies for a fair, free and open society, policies that enhance the capabilities of all… Ÿ Elected: in N/Manchester in 98 1st LD Cllr Ÿ 32 % Swing (the biggest in the UK) Politician Ÿ Fought 10 council elections Businessman Ÿ Fought 3 Euro elections Consultant Ÿ Fought 3 Parliamentary elections Ÿ TV presenter Highest vote against Gerald Kaufman MP Lecturer Chief executive of a abi media marketing consultancy Mentor delivering, startups, economic development, FDI, and media training in the UK and internationally Well-connected: inside and outside the party and has a well-earned reputation for his committed activism for thirty years, he has combined his business career with a wide range of voluntary work & politics. Member of Advisory Board of Grassroutes to Government network He’s Vice Chair for the PCA Executive Party: Qassim currently serves on the FE, FCC and the International Relations Committee. He is also a member of the DCMS & IAT (foreign affairs) committee, elected to the Interim Peers panel, acted PPC Kas on the as chair of Manchester City LibDems, the LGA campaign trail Equalities Executive and a Board member & Chair NW picks up daughter Development Agency Business Forum, (EMBF) Zaynab from School Qassim promises to continue working hard for members at every level within the party and thanks those who have voted for him. Attendance & Punctuality = 100% Qassim in 14 years never missed a London Meeting Nominators: Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP AFZAL No. 1 Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP please Contact me: [email protected], mobile: 07956 87 30 46 @QassimAfzal KAY BARNARD A friendly regional figure with national reach “Policy is not dry and distant; it drives the agenda of the party and touches on all aspects of our lives.” Our members are our greatest resource, with a depth of knowledge and understanding. We should be tapping into that by a much wider representation on our federal committees. Out there are members with experience of the real world, doers and thinkers. Let’s end the centralising of our politics and policies. We Lib Dems have a long tradition as independent-minded people. Our councillors have led the way with superb local initiatives. We should consult as widely as possible before agreeing policy at our conferences. That isn’t always the case now. About Kay: From the South West, Kay has advised on three Lib Dem policy groups. Kay is a farmer, a rural environmentalist, a scientist and small business owner. Kay also works in Africa helping countries feed themselves and with UK business in the EU. A former fellow councillor:- “Kay is straight-forward and incapable of bulls**t”. Thank you for reading this. Please give Kay your first preference vote for Federal Policy Committee. Feel free to contact Kay at [email protected] with any questions KAY BARNARD 1 Katherine Bavage for FPC Give me your first preference if you think: ● Party policy debate has to engage more with online privacy and surveillance issues in a party where 4 months after conference passes a motion endorsing a digital bill of rights, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act can pass into law; ● It's time conference had debates about Big Data, Open Source, Free licensing, the digital economy or technology strategy as central to its social and economic policies - not Katherine's boxed away as ‘that techy stuff’; experience: ● If you share my belief that new Party roles: technologies and digital Joined the Party in 2006. participation are going to be crucial Yorkshire and Humber Lib Dem. to delivering social justice and liberal values; Former parliamentary caseworker, local party secretary and local ● If you think we need to invest more council candidate. in researching and shaping how Member of social liberal forum and liberal values can be enshrined or passionate advocate of policies that undermined by how we approach champion fairness and equality. the increasingly central role of Career: technology in our political and public life. Postgraduate degree in Political Communication. What I want to achieve on FPC: Worked within Child Protection and ● Specific work and consultation with Adoption and Fostering directorates experts to move to embedding for over three years. technical innovation into all our Fundraising and Communication policy approaches; roles for Universities. ● Bring real-world experience from Contact me: the fields of social care, higher education and the charity sector to @Bavage our party policy making process; [email protected] ● Enhance our communication of https://www.facebook.com policy messaging to the public by /KatherineBavageFPC contributing to position papers. Katherine Bavage #1 BENNIONPhil A vital scrutiny champion and voice for the regions Dr Phil Bennion is one of the sharpest policy brains in the Lib Dems, who served 10 years on FPC prior to 2012. In 28 months as a Midlands MEP, he won praise across party lines for work on employment and transport legislation, especially on safer lorries and opening air and rail networks. A strong supporter of devolution, he worked with Heseltine and Labour on a radical 2013 blueprint for shifting power and money to city regions. A working farmer with a PhD in agronomy, Phil is an expert in sustainable rural policy. We need him back as a ‘Rural Champion’ on an urban-dominated FPC, where in previous terms his work was a huge asset to our MPs. With another degree in economic history, Phil was one of the first to push the £10,000 income tax threshold. Lib Dem spokesman on Employment and "Getting policy right will make or break us Transport in Brussels from 2012 -14. next year. Campaign bullet points need to As MEP authored the Bennion Report on be backed with costed and credible proposals. employee participation and pushed EU- “The Scottish referendum means devolution wide laws for safer lorry design. and decentralisation are again centre stage. Phil is an effective campaigner. Before Inconsistencies will be ruthlessly exposed, so being MEP, he was a councillor for 12 we need to be careful and clear. years and a three time Parliamentary and “As MEP, my work on the EP’s South Asia European candidate. delegation (to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Chair of LDEG 2007-12, Phil is editor of Lanka in particular) will bring important LibDem EuroFILE. A member of Railfuture. international experience to FPC.” PhD in agronomy. Phil got sustainability criteria put into EU legislation to stop rain- forest timber being claimed as biomass. For forensic and clear policy-making WE NEED PHIL RE-ELECTED Phil BENNION 1 Phil needs your FIRST PREFERENCE. Kelly-Marie Blundell A Record of Action Federal Policy Committee Championed Liberty, Equality and 2012-2014 . Community during Federal Policy Parliamentary Candidate Committee meetings for Guildford Lib Dem Disability Association Stood up for Welfare, those in poverty Vice Chair and tackled inequality including . Social Liberal Forum Council disability and gender within the party. 2011-current Moved Welfare Reform Motion, Food . Poverty Motion and Equality for Disabled People Motion A Promise of More Work to make policy reflect the views of . the party as a whole . Make equality a key tenet of our Manifesto See the Manifesto through to . completion /KMBlundell @KellyMarieLD www.guildfordld.org.uk SHARON BOWLES No 1. For Federal Policy Committee I joined the Liberal Democrats to help make policy. That has always been my driver and as it turned out I was lucky enough to have a substantial influence over financial services and company law during my time as an MEP and Chair of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. Now I want to look wider again at this vital time in the run up to the General Election and beyond. We face tough times because the country is tired of austerity and in a bid to end it may vote for anything to bring change. Our offering has always been a balanced diet, with the heart the Tories lack and the head Labour never had. But we must be more than the moderators that cut out the excesses of left and right. There is good stuff in our draft manifesto - empowerment through education is crucial. Health and welfare really matter, and if we don't build houses we are educating our children just to see many of them leave in a housing-led brain drain. It is homes that will keep them here more than a balanced budget. I have never been enslaved by conformity, no matter the forum, and that will be my approach on the Federal Policy Committee. Please give me your first preference vote so that I can use all my long experience to help our Party and our country. 1 David Boyle There is one thing I want to achieve on the policy committee – to make sure we go into the general election with a distinctive, radical, green and effective economic policy – including local banks, local enterprise and local diversity. The party urgently needs bold, distinctive and coherent new approaches, and therefore thinkers on the FPC. The truth is we have neglected our thinking over the past decade, especially when it comes to economics.
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