Backroom legal obsessive. Former law lecturer and government lawyer. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlgardner/ Also books, beer, films, and a bit of politics. London and Warrington.
Carl Gardner
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It's been a tough day but enormously cheered by this Reddit thread of a guy demanding Tesco treat bananas as berries for the purpose of getting extra club card points. www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...
Labour has to try to avoid this scenario.
With all respect to party members (& I've been one for most of my adult life) it is democratically indefensible for 0.5% of the electorate - whom no-one has elected, but who pay a fee to a party - to decide whether a prime minister is removed or reinstated.
Something I thought during recent Tory leadership contests, and that's worth reminding myself of. If there are any broadcast debates I think it's important that any audience should be drawn from the general public, not limited to those with a vote in the contest.
The feeling of outrage is quite right because of the closed, privatised, undemocratic and elitist method of selection, by party members. These changes would be less contentious among the general public (as they were when Callaghan and Major came in) if MPs alone made them happen.
