In the same week that Douglas Carswell has been filmed and interviewing calling for a change at the helm of UKIP, the Charity Commission has published a paper arguing that organisations (Charities in their case) must avoid allowing a dominant individual from overpowering the rest of the board (or Trustees). This advice is not new or radical. However the way in which organisations make decisions has been shown consistently to be improved by a pluralistic and diverse group of people. This is a particular challenge in settings such as democratic politics where all commentators want to see a strong voice and clear set of views often on the hoof, the very antithesis of how a good team makes its decisions. This is why politicians look so lame when they prevaricate if asked questions that they could not have been expected to be asked. On the other hand when they fail to answer questions where they should have an agreed point of view, they deserve to be castigated. My own view is that UKIP will need to see a full and proper change at the top if it is to extend its role. However persuading Nigel Farage to let go of the tiller is likely to be a bloody affair and it may actually lead to the end of UKIP in its current form.
If you find any of these posts relevant to some of the social or political issues of the moment do leave a comment or contact me directly (click on my photo for my contact details)
Blog Stats
- 73,937 hits
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Top Rated
Categories
- Afghanistan (27)
- Brighton & Hove (602)
- Casey Review (5)
- Charities (493)
- Church Teaching (102)
- Community Safety (267)
- Data Retention and Investigatory Powers (17)
- Deaf & Hard of Hearing (60)
- Economics (540)
- Education (411)
- Environment (202)
- EU Referendum (537)
- Health Reform (110)
- Housing (77)
- Immigration (106)
- Journalism (128)
- Justice Issues (219)
- Lobbying Bill (65)
- Network Rail (61)
- Obituary (20)
- Parliament and Democracy (2,934)
- Phone Hacking (7)
- Planning Rules (56)
- Police & Crime Commissioner (202)
- Policing (391)
- Scottish Referendum (21)
- STEM (46)
- Syria (90)
- Think Tanks (15)
- UK Riots in August 2011 (15)
- Ukraine (14)
- Uncategorized (48)
- Welfare Reform (72)
- Yemen (44)
- Youth Issues (379)
Twitter Updates
- I was delighted to attend on behalf of @AshdownAV you did a fantastic presentation and very welcome approach twitter.com/GBMETcoll/stat… 38 minutes ago
- The Government must provide more funds for @FareShareUK as expressed by @jessicamordenmp and @ChrisStephens (and as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- Hi @Tracy37162125 @StirFromBelow @LawnShapes @edwasp @landreferencing this is my blog today - The Lower Thames Cros… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 20 hours ago
- The Lower Thames Crossing is proposed with over 1 Million trees to replace some of the challenges created by the im… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 22 hours ago
- Amber Rudd
- Andrew Griffith
- Boris Johnson
- Brexit
- Brighton & Hove
- Brighton & Hove City Council
- C-19
- Caroline Ansell
- Caroline Lucas
- Charities
- Charity Commission
- Charity Commission for England and Wales
- Chris Grayling
- Conservative Party
- Coronavirus
- COVID-19
- Daily Telegraph
- Daniel Hannan
- David Cameron
- David Davis
- Democracy
- Department for Education
- Donald Trump
- Eric Pickles
- EU Referendum
- European Union
- FareShare
- Foodbanks
- George Osborne
- Gillian Keegan
- Government
- Green Party
- Henry Smith
- Home Office
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Huw Merriman
- Iain Duncan Smith
- Independent Candidates
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Jeremy Hunt
- Katy Bourne
- Keir Starmer
- Labour Party
- Lib Dem Party
- Lloyd Russell-Moyle
- Lobbying Bill
- Local government
- Maria Caulfield
- Matthew Hancock
- Member of Parliament
- Michael Gove
- MPs
- NHS
- Nick Gibb
- Nigel Farage
- Nusrat Ghani
- Parliament
- Peter Bottomley
- Peter Kyle
- Police and Crime Commissioner
- Priti Patel
- Sajid Javid MP
- Sally-Ann Hart
- Small Businesses
- SME
- Sussex
- Sussex Police
- Syria
- Theresa May
- Tim Loughton
- Tony Blair
- UKIP
- YMCA Downslink Group