Day Twenty Two: Stress, Stress Stress

One week to the election and still no ballot paper. The pattern seems to be repeated across the country. Robert-John Tasker, the chairman from Kingston emailed me to tell me he hadn't got his ballot (or Fresher's Fair stuff). After phoning central office he found out that none of his branch member's had their forms registered with central office because the area chairman "Forgot to send them in". Only those who registered centrally will be getting their papers.

NOTE: The Kingston guys are not unique, many of you 'members' are not members and will not be eligible to vote this time around.

Reforming CF was always the difficult part of this campaign to communicate to people. Put simply, the way we are set up as an organisation is a bit amateurish. The one staff member we have is massively overworked and we rely totally on area and branch chairmen who range from very good and professional, to almost non-existent.

We need to reassess how we should be working, and how to bypass the problems that come with having so many key members as students or overworked young professionals. This includes simple things like interns at Central Office to help with the admin, to proper systems of accountability.