Talk:Liberal Youth

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Can't members of the main party under 26 "opt-out" of being members of LDYS? Jamesedwardsmith 15:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

No, they can't. However, (a) there is no obligation to be actively involved in LDYS - they can just receive mailings and have the rights to attend LDYS confeences, vote and stand in internal elections if they wish, and (b) they are also automatically members of their local parties so can get involved locally as well or instead of with LDYS if they wish.

A complication is that both local parties and LDYS elect representatives to attend federal conferences. In order to avoid people getting two votes in this process, young members are supposed to choose to excercise these membership rights either through their local party or through LDYS. 80.229.220.14 10:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Silly question, but how can they be "fully autonomous" yet be (1) financially supported by the main party and (2) comprise all members of the main party under the age of 26? If they are dependent on the main party for money and members they are by definition at least partially dependent. Changed "fully autonomous" to "autonomous".

Fair enough - The Land 17:03, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I've just altered the early dates slightly; the previous entry suggested that LDYS was created in 1992, probably by working back through the people elected as Chair and giving each of their terms of office a full year. LDYS was actually created in 1993, through separate merger votes of the Student Liberal Democrats and the Young Liberal Democrats of England in March and April 1993 (first by conference resolutions, then all-member ballots). However, a decision to consider merger had been taken by each organisation in November 1992, at which point five people from each organisation formed a Merger Negotiation Committee (like Sarah Gurling, I was one of those elected to negotiate from the Student side).

Kiron Reid was the final Chair of the Young Liberal Democrats of England, then elected as the first Chair of LDYS from 1993 to 1994 (not 1992-1993 as originally stated here), and I was Chair from March 1994 to March 1995 (not 1993-1994), and that's the point at which I think the mistake crept in. Constitutional changes in March 1995 meant that the Chair's term of office would in future run from Autumn to Autumn rather than Spring to Spring from that point on, and therefore Phil Jones was only elected to serve from March to November of the same year. The facts look a little strange on the list as corrected, but they are the facts.

Alexwilcock 12:40, 22 March 2006 (UTC)Alex Wilcock