Day Twenty Six: Final Week

The race is coming down to the wire. Every day reveals new people who can't vote in the election and usually this involves whole branches being ineligible.

This has a bad effect on people who were pounding the pavements last election, delivering leaflets or canvassing. To find out that, despite all the work you did, you are not even a member, usually because the guy in charge of your branch or area 'forgot' to send in the right information is at best annoying, at worst, a kick in the teeth.

Also, emailing the area chairmen, to try and reach the members outside of London, it is quickly becoming clear that some contact details are out of date and completely useless as as result.

CF needs a shot in the arm. We are a poor shadow of the organisation that we should be, and the problems are not complex. Simple things, like knowing who our members are, or asking who should be responsible for certain jobs seem beyond our capabilities. Reform is a vague notion for the party as a whole, but for CF it is much simpler. We need to take a professional outloook on how we conduct our business.

The Exec don't need to run another branch, they need to concentrate on work that will support the branches and have us working as an effective team by the time of the 2009 General Election. I want to focus on our e-campaigning strategy and improving the services for our non-student members, it will take some hard work and a bit of forward planning, but I know what can be done within the year if the exec wants it.

Roll on Thursday!