Liberal Bureaucracy

The musings of a liberal and an internationalist, living in Suffolk's county town. There may be references to parish councils, bureaucracy and travel, amongst other things. And yes, I'm a Liberal Democrat.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

A bureaucrat in Istanbul (not Constantinole)

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Conference is over, and it's time to escape the sunshine of Suffolk for something a little more exotic. And so, here I am in Istanbul. I...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Blog of the Year Awards: James Graham acceptance speech

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James won the BOTY for the best posting. For those of you of a sensitive disposition, I should warn that this clip contains 'adult' ...

Conference Day Three: (Not Quite) Everybody) Loves Vince

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It was becoming apparent that the 'Mansion Tax' was causing something of a stir. Naturally, as an employee of HM Revenue & Custo...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

When Liberal Bureaucracy met Discworld...

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I have met so many people at Conference this year, and you've all been really nice. However, a chance encounter allowed me to publish th...
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Blog of the Year Awards: Slugger O'Toole

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Forever the bridesmaid and never the bride, it fell to Stephen Glenn to collect the award for the best non-Lib Dem Blog. At some point, it w...

Blog of the Year Awards: Jo Swinson acceptance speech

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It was Jo Swinson's day at the awards, winning the award for the best use of social networking, as well as being the subject of award-wi...

Conference Day 2: an award free zone

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Well, the BOTYs ceremony, as we must now call it, went without too much controversy. Our compere for the evening, Stephen Tall, wearing a ha...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Blog of the Year Awards: Mark Reckons acceptance speech

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Never let it be said that I can't 'do' technology. And so, without further ado, my first video. Apologies for any camera shake -...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Conference Day Two: the secret society meets

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Sunday morning, far too early. I hadn't read my papers for English Candidates Committee the top secret Committee tasked with keeping yo...

Conference Day One: tales from the green room

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And so, there I was for the beginning of Conference, having arrived a little early, and was talking to Annette Brooke, our MP for Dorset Mid...

Be very afraid: bureaucrat with gadget alert

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You just have that 'Eureka' moment sometimes. And mine was flicking that little switch on the memory card... As Jennie would put it...

Conference Day One: a bureaucrat steps out

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Alright, I was now up for Conference but the finishing touches were missing. Yes, it was time to go shopping. Fortified by a list from Ros, ...
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Conference Day Zero: Friday night surprises

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Alright, Mark, time to buck up. After all, it's only a Liberal Democrat conference, full of old friends and other assorted nice people. ...
Friday, September 18, 2009

A bureaucrat ascends the scaffold...

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And to the strains of Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, I am bound for Bournemouth, for the opening of Federal Confer...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Conference: go back to Bournemouth and prepare to be perplexed

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I've always had mixed feelings about Federal Conference. Years of being a wallflower amongst the 'beautiful people' (MPs, Peer...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Why you still don't know what Party Committees are up to (part 5) - ghosts in my machine…

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There will be those who will suggest that I am calling for the various committees to be exempted from criticism, that communication should b...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Why you still don't know what Party Committees are up to (part 4) - is there an easy answer to the dilemma?

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For anyone else considering using a blog to reach out to interested parties, it makes for a depressing spectacle. If the outcome is to provi...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Guilty of looking at the government in a funny way

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The new Independent Safeguarding Authority marks another stage in the Labour Party's attempts to fracture our society into one where ind...
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Why you still don't know what Party committees are up to (part 3) - so what went wrong?

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Somebody once said that pop will eat itself, and I fear that this is true of blogging. In truth, that element of the leadership, national or...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Why you still don't know what Party committees are up to (part 2) - a brief, personal history of ‘reporting back’ via blogging

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Curiously, blogging, as a reporting medium, has been decidedly underused, given its relative simplicity. I blogged on events on the London R...
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Mark Valladares
Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Not your average bureaucrat, I live in the heart of Suffolk’s county town, Ipswich, with my rather more interesting wife, Ros. I’m coming to the end of my adventures in the first tier of local government, having chaired Creeting St Peter Parish Council for eight years. I travel as much as work allows, play a minor backroom role in the Liberal Democrats, and walk 10,000 steps a day…
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