Selly Oak and Edgbaston Liberal Democrats AGM/IGM

9.52.04am GMT Wed 22nd Nov 2006

Last night was the Selly Oak and Edgbaston Liberal Democrat AGM and IGM. For some reason I seem to have become the Returning Officer for this local party, I used to live in Selly Oak and still have many friends so I suspect thats how I ended up with the task. Selly Oak has massive boundary changes for the next General Election losing half of its current wards and gaining new ones so we had to have the two meetings.

It all went to plan, the highlights were Councillor Robert Wright being re-selected to stand in Selly Oak at the local elections, Roger Harmer was also selected to stand in Bournville and Stuart Ritchie was re-elected as Chair. The surprise of the night was bumping into an old friend from Uni days who I never got to join but he has done it of his own accord.

After the AGM I was quizzed about the Hereford selection by a couple of people who I suspect may be interested in standing - I am certainly hearing a number of names being mentioned and it should be a good selection.