Mandatory reselection would be any kind of threat only to those Labour MPs who had failed to vote against the Fiscal Charter, and who had voted against the SNP motion on Trident instead of abstaining, and who had voted in favour of airstrikes in Syria.
Since only 14 Labour MPs voted against the SNP motion on Trident instead of abstaining, mandatory reselection could not be any kind of threat to any more than 14 Labour MPs. I should have to check, but I doubt that even all of those fell into both of the other categories.
Far more than 14 Labour MPs are going to have to go in 2020 anyway, simply because of the boundary changes.
If it hadn't been for the women only short list, we'd have had an MP who had failed to vote against the Fiscal Charter, and who had voted against the SNP motion on Trident instead of abstaining, and who had voted in favour of airstrikes in Syria.
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ReplyDeleteWhich instantly demeans any woman who enters Parliament through it.
What kind of woman wants to admit she's not good enough to get selected without banning men from standing against them?
Oh, it has done this constituency a very good turn. It has outlived its world, though. The concerns are different now. But even so.
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