Well you would have thought so from this pathetic article defending those responsible for the party's election disaster by using the excuse of legitimate concerns about staff welfare.
What Caron Lindsay and the Lib Dem Voice Team are failing to realise is that by letting Ryan Coetzee, Tim Gordon, Hillary Stephenson and other senior (and highly paid) exectutives avoid legitimate criticism of their decision making, they are doing the party a big disservice. Those at the top are not 'party staff' - they are executive management and it was their actions and decisions that determined the Lib Dem campaign. They were the people carrying out the 'comfort' polls, writing the messaging, and advising the leadership on what to say and when. In short they were responsible for the failure of the 2015 campaign. And they should take responsibility and resign (like the Leader of the Party).
One final thought - if Coetzee is such a shrinking violet and unable to take criticism why then would he write a superficial and frankly deluded article for the Guardian (and reproduced by LDV) basically saying he ran the best possible campaign and wouldn't even change it now knowing its result.
If you're foolish enough to try and polish a turd in public - then don't complain when several buckets of the stuff get thrown back in your direction.
What Caron Lindsay and the Lib Dem Voice Team are failing to realise is that by letting Ryan Coetzee, Tim Gordon, Hillary Stephenson and other senior (and highly paid) exectutives avoid legitimate criticism of their decision making, they are doing the party a big disservice. Those at the top are not 'party staff' - they are executive management and it was their actions and decisions that determined the Lib Dem campaign. They were the people carrying out the 'comfort' polls, writing the messaging, and advising the leadership on what to say and when. In short they were responsible for the failure of the 2015 campaign. And they should take responsibility and resign (like the Leader of the Party).
One final thought - if Coetzee is such a shrinking violet and unable to take criticism why then would he write a superficial and frankly deluded article for the Guardian (and reproduced by LDV) basically saying he ran the best possible campaign and wouldn't even change it now knowing its result.
If you're foolish enough to try and polish a turd in public - then don't complain when several buckets of the stuff get thrown back in your direction.
