Thursday 11 July 2013

Primary Testing

It is probably a bit much to ignore the ongoing process of ranking by all-member ballot the shortlisted Labour candidates for the European Elections, and instead put the whole thing out to a ballot, conducted at your old-fashioned polling stations, of every registered voter.

Or is it? There is plenty of time between now and the European Elections, and it is not as if they involve much campaigning once the candidates have been selected. Do this in September or October. Why not?

Likewise, the next time that there is a list of working peers to be submitted. A list of names one and a half times the allocated number, being those nominated by the most Constituency Labour Parties in the country, put out to a ballot of the entire electorate.

Each of us would vote for up to one quarter of the allocated number, and the allocated number would be put forward at the end. That would certainly be quite a challenge to the other parties.

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