AGM Nominations

[kermit the frog]

i think this is actually a way of the debating society going public about their kinky goings on...

[Anon.]

Whose idea was it to call the post "Chief Whip"? It doesn't seem to describe the remit in the slightest.

If you're going to bring in Parliamentary titles just for the hell of it, at least reinstate "Chairman of Ways and Means" as well.

[David Bean]

[s]Anon. wrote on 21:12, 25th Mar 2004:
Whose idea was it to call the post "Chief Whip"? It doesn't seem to describe the remit in the slightest.

I don't see why not. A Parliamentary Whip tells his colleagues how to vote; the Chief Whip tells his colleagues how to speak. Only a minor difference, surely?

Seriously, though, the title is designed to tie in with the Society's forthcoming initiative to recognise the efforts of the most proliffic IV speakers, details of which will, I'm sure, follow soon.

If you're going to bring in Parliamentary titles just for the hell of it, at least reinstate "Chairman of Ways and Means" as well.

Last year I was all for using that as an alternative title to 'Deputy Convenor', but the Board didn't like it, so screw them, says I!

[Anon.]

A "Chief Whip" also implies the existence of some common-or-garden, non-Chief Whips. Which there aren't.

Why not make the Convenor "Lord Convenor"? And the Treasurer "Archtreasurer"? There's no reason why meaningless title inflation should be exclusive, surely?

[Anon.]

Bally double-posting.

Oh, and who was it who thought up this "Chief Whip" stuff?

[Bryn]

[s]Anon. wrote on 17:00, 10th Apr 2004:
A "Chief Whip" also implies the existence of some common-or-garden, non-Chief Whips. Which there aren't.

No? Surely the Chief Whip can get in anyone else with other expertise to do training? It's just the the Chief Whip is in charge, and organises everything.

[hr]
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[Anon.]

Some cursory internet-trawling tells me that the use of "whip" in this sense derives from the whippers-in at a hunt; a whip of the parliamentary sort is therefore someone who ensures the presence/attendance of those over whom he has jurisdiction.

Not really anything like a debating coach.

[exnihilo]

[s]Anon. wrote on 17:00, 10th Apr 2004:And the Treasurer "Archtreasurer"?

I like to think I was always a fairly arch treasurer.