Catching up before Conference

I've been a bit lax in my posting since last week's Trident vote - taking time to catch up with things other than anti-nuclear campaigning (my day job) and the London Assembly selection.

I'm off to Green Party conference in Swansea tomorrow where I have the dubious pleasure of co-chairing the debate on a motion which would initiate a membership consultation and ballot on a proposal to replace the current positions of Principal Speakers (one male, one female) with a Leader and Deputy Leader (or co-leaders). The exact proposal that would go to the membership if the motion were passed will be determined by a number of amendments to the original proposal. It looks set to be at least as heated as the last conference session I chaired (in Hove, last autumn) which agreed the procedure for membership ballot such as the one proposed here.