In a motion which runs to rather less than the character limit of a Tweet, the future of the English Party might be made to look something a bit less than secure on 8 November.
The motion reads as follows;
That the East of England Liberal Democrats become a state party on 1 January 2016.
It must be said that the East of England does have some constitutional form here, in that it moved from one-year terms for its Executive Committee to two-year terms a few years ago - it was my idea and Regional Representatives seem to like it.
The notes outlining the impact of, and reasoning behind, the motion are rather longer;
Section 2.1 of the Federal Party constitution allows for regional parties to become state parties and this is reflected in 15.1 of this region's constitution.
Becoming a state party allows this region to receive greater funding, employ more staff, provide more services directly to the local parties and remove a level of bureaucracy, the English Party, from members in this region.
As the time to convert to a state party cannot be done overnight the proposal would be to change in 2016 and complete all the pre-administration after the general election in the second half of 2015.
Frankly, as a long-term critic of the English Party, its insularity and its consistent failure in terms of openness and transparency, I'll be voting in favour of the motion, and it will be interesting to see if it is part of an organised attempt across a number of Regional Parties.
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