Tuesday 6 June 2006

Selection of Parliamentary Candidates

The Conservatives of Bromley and Chislehurst deserve universal congratulation for selecting a parliamentary candidate other than from David Cameron's racist and sexually discriminatory "A-list". In fact, in the course of each Parliament and across all parties, each constituency organisation's shortlist of two potential parliamentary candidates should be submitted to a binding ballot of every registered voter in the constituency, while each party's shortlist of two potential Leaders (i.e., putative Prime Ministers) should be submitted to a binding ballot of every regsitered voter in the United Kingdom. Then the Notting Hill and Primrose Hill sets simply would not be MPs at all, having been replaced with serious politicians; the nonentities currently being lined up for safe seats by all three parties could forget it.
Furthermore, no constituency organisation of any party should consider selecting any candidate, including reselecting any sitting MP, who did not undertake to accept only the national mean wage for full-time work (which would still put him or her in the top third in the country), and to donate the rest of the MP's, and any ministerial salary, to political and community causes. Plenty of people manage to live in London on a lot less than the national mean wage, and they certainly do not have MPs' perks.

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