tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post113753932993729629..comments2024-03-18T15:52:46.631+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Those leadership contest rulesJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1137620205348348272006-01-18T21:36:00.000+00:002006-01-18T21:36:00.000+00:00Agree generally with both, although I must admit I...Agree generally with both, although I must admit I only joined the party the other day pushed by this, a poor student convinced to part with beer tokens!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1137585778255235562006-01-18T12:02:00.000+00:002006-01-18T12:02:00.000+00:00Agree with (2) - although on balance I would prefe...Agree with (2) - although on balance I would prefer a 3-month "cooling off" period than a 12-month period as advanced by the English Party.<BR/><BR/>(1) I don't agree with. It is a valuable muppet test which only one of the candidates this time round has failed.James Graham (Quaequam Blog!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00319089107820032874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1137581953387582762006-01-18T10:59:00.000+00:002006-01-18T10:59:00.000+00:00Can't agree with (1). What is the point of MP nomi...Can't agree with (1). What is the point of MP nominations? It's to ensure that a candidate has a level of support amongst MPs sufficient to ensure those MPs can work with the elected leader. And most MPs might be happy with more than one candidate. It might make sense to only allow them to nominate one candidate if the election itself was run under FPTP and <I>everybody</I> was forced to come down for one candidate only - or if we wanted to ape the Tories and allow the MPs to narrow down the field before the members get a say.<BR/><BR/>On (2) I'm more on the fence. I largely agree with the democratic principle argument, but in practice it has been very helpful to those of us on the ground who've been trying to sign up our supporters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1137547611503714152006-01-18T01:26:00.000+00:002006-01-18T01:26:00.000+00:00Pretty much agree; it seems utterly wrong that a l...Pretty much agree; it seems utterly wrong that a long time lapsed member such as myself can be considering rejoining at this stage, and I understand I can even nominate people if I join up soon.<BR/><BR/>As for Hemming et al nominating multiples, and Guido's dubious entryism, well, I suspect that'll get changed pretty quickly.MatGBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02821264556751176639noreply@blogger.com