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Britain at the mercy of the Tory party faithful

Once again, a UK prime minister has been chosen by a cartel of Conservative members. How did the “selectorate” end up with so much power?
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What we can be certain about is that process matters. If the competition to elect the leader had been limited to Conservative MPs, as it was between the 1960s and 1990s, the debate would have followed a rather different course, attending, by way of MPs wishing to be re-elected, to the needs and fears of the wider electorate. Paradoxically, by extending the franchise to the broader party membership in the late 1990s, the Conservative Party narrowed the bandwidth of debate.
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it would still be skewed towards appealing to a certain slice of the UK population by only including representatives from ~350 of the 650 constituencies. I wonder how the contest would change if all the prospective parliamentary candidates were given votes as well as actual MPs. (it'd still be a shitshow)


anyway, thank fuck this interminable nonsense is finally nearly over. feels like it's dragged on for years.
 
Cerv said:
www.newstatesman.com

Britain at the mercy of the Tory party faithful

Once again, a UK prime minister has been chosen by a cartel of Conservative members. How did the “selectorate” end up with so much power?
www.newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com
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The (implicit) central thesis of this article is that the section of party leaders should be down to 'the experts', after all that would have stopped the "far from obviously prime ministerial Jeremy Corbyn" being elected as Labour leader. Technocracy posing as more 'democratic'.

The comments on the cosplay vs real Thatcherism (and Thatchers support for the EU) are correct, but this
the serious body of Thatcherite policy analysis associated with John Hoskyns, her chief strategist in opposition and during her first three years in office, much of which remains highly pertinent to an economy where inflationary pressures fuel wage demands and strikes.
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gives a good indication of where the politics of this piece resides.
 
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We can hold a general election or a national referendum on a single day, cope with postal votes, and still get a result in the early hours of the following morning. Why does it take so fucking long to elect a leader of a fringe party (42.4% in 2019), with an electorate far, far smaller? Have they had to wait to install updates on their abacus or something?
 
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stavros said:
We can hold a general election or a national referendum on a single day, cope with postal votes, and still get a result in the early hours of the following morning. Why does it take so fucking long to elect a leader of a fringe party (42.4% in 2019), with an electorate far, far smaller? Have they had to wait to install update son their abacus or something?
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Exit polls say:

“Is it tea time?”
“The staff are stealing my underwear”
And
“Do they serve Dubonnet here?”
 
maybe 6 weeks of being told Truss had already won had the effect of suppressing her vote. if it's a forgone conclusion people can be tempted not to bother.
 
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