leadership Vapers in Power.

[szaxe]

First i would like to say hu to everyone here at AAEC and also apologize if I have put this post in the wrong place (please move if required) ... this is my first post   Anyway please see below,


leadership Vapers in Power.



Wayne Styles, who agreed to give temporary support and advice on setting up the Party felt it was now
 time for VIP to select permanent leadership as he has a very busy work schedule .



The Team are very grateful for his invaluable help. Thank you Wayne and we hope you will still offer
 advice as we move forward.



On the above and as we will be registering the Party very soon, we have now had a leadership vote.



The Team: Jessica Harding (jessica): Matthew james ( Matt James 121 ): Garry Dibley (Garry Dibley): Liam bryan (blaze): Peter Gill (Szaxe): and Russel vr Ord (Russel vr Ord) had a free vote and from that unanimous decision I will now list the new leadership.



Party Leader Jessica Harding.



Party Chairman Matthew James.



They will both be Deputy's of each others post so we hopefully will not be leaderless if the positions become
 to much for either of our leaders.



Until we can find a new Secretary and Nominating Officer, both leaders have agreed to continue with
 those roles also.



Hopefully our leaders will pop in now and say Hi. Please make them feel welcome.

[Chrissie]

Hello & welcome szaxe

I'm going to move this thread to the Promoting campaigning board - maybe you would like to start a new thread in New members just to say hello?

[fagin]

For those who haven't followed the ?fiasco? in UKV, you might mention leaders of what.

[szaxe]

Mar 25, 2014 21:34:07 GMT Chrissie said:

Hello & welcome szaxe

I'm going to move this thread to the Promoting campaigning board - maybe you would like to start a new thread in New members just to say hello?

Thank you Chrissie and thanks for the welcome  I had a feeling I had put it in the wrong place. 

[szaxe]

Mar 25, 2014 21:35:36 GMT fagin said:

For those who haven't followed the ?fiasco? in UKV, you might mention leaders of what.

UKVIP was started several months ago, the original members being Myself, Garry Dibbley and Russel vr Ord for a candidate for an MP (we raised £600, the price of registration). It was proposed to expand this to include MEP's, but when this hit some problems we reverted back to the original plan and team to host just MP candidates (walk before we could run LOL).

Since then we have grown and now have two candidates for 2015 elections .. We may have a test run in the 2014 local Elections, but that is still to be decided.

We have now changed the name from UKVIP too Vapers in Power to cover concerns over the title being confused with UKIP.

We shall be registering the Party very shortly with the Electoral Commission.

We are realistic and do not expect to win the elections (although we wouldn't complain LOL). 

The main point of the Party is because of terms in Art. 20 of the TPD ..... There are moves in the legislation to limit the free speech of vapers and try to gag vapers and vaping related media. It is easy for governments to silence consumer related movements, but it is a whole different proposition to silence a Political Party. Such a move would be of International concern.

[babs]

Glad to see this is up and running again and the name change is great I was a bit concerned about the UKVIP name and mentioned it at the time. I also made a donation but it was refunded is there going to be any more fund raising? If so keep us posted being on a pension I don't have a lot of money but as they say every little helps.

[szaxe]

Mar 25, 2014 22:47:33 GMT babs said:

Glad to see this is up and running again and the name change is great I was a bit concerned about the UKVIP name and mentioned it at the time. I also made a donation but it was refunded is there going to be any more fund raising? If so keep us posted being on a pension I don't have a lot of money but as they say every little helps.

Thanks Babs for you kind words, we have never actually stopped, but decided to get everything correct so the Party can be properly registered with the Electoral Commission so we can be seen as a legal entity by the Anti-vaping brigade (Don't want to give them any ammo LOL).

We are still growing  and looking for more vapers to join and possibly join the team. 

[davetherayon]

I support this initiative. Vapers in the political arena can only be a good thing to shake up the establishment. They don't like it up em (tm Private Jones).

[jessica]

Mar 30, 2014 17:30:08 GMT davetherayon said:

I support this initiative. Vapers in the political arena can only be a good thing to shake up the establishment. They don't like it up em (tm Private Jones).

Yes, it will be harder to ignore us....

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