This in from the Isle of Wight Liberal Democrats. Ed
At the recent Isle of Wight Liberal Democrats AGM David Goodall was appointed to be the Parliamentary Spokesman.
David was the meeting’s guest speaker and spoke about his life on the Island and commenting on the fact that the AGM date was almost 18 years to the day since his twin boys were born just up the road at St Mary’s Hospital.
David grew up in Cowes, attending Denmark Road Primary, Solent Middle and Cowes High Schools, before starting work as an apprentice with Plessey Radar, whom he worked for as apprentice, undergraduate and electronics design engineer for 11 years.
During this time, David met and married his wife Kerstin, before his career eventually took them off the Island to the European and UK mainland. David worked for Siemens in Munich before returning to the UK to work at Roke Manor Research in Romsey.
David also played for the Isle of Wight hockey club for 14 years, captaining the 2nd XI for many of those years, was a member of Cowes Rotaract Club for eight years and was in 2nd Cowes (St Mary’s) scouts group from cub to venture scouts, as well as being a keen swimmer for West Wight Swimming Club.
Scrutiny chair
David currently chairs the overview and scrutiny of PUSH. PUSH is a multi council organisation, which since 2013 includes the Isle of Wight Council; its aim is to coordinate sub-regional planning and councils’ work with the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership.
The Solent LEP has responsibilities from central Government to promote economic growth in a local area and the organisation that is part-funding improvements to the Red Funnel terminals in Southampton and East Cowes. David is standing down from his mainland council roles in May, so that he can concentrate on the Island.
