Now that the Tory’s primary in Totnes is over, I thought I’d add a couple of extra thoughts following my previous post on the subject. The first is that, following the discovery that the candidates each had an expenses limit of £200, it is hard to see how this was much of a test at… Continue reading More thought on primaries – and London Mayors
Tag: candidate-selection
The Fernandos expose a wider failure
This has become an incoherent babble but I was determined to finish it. My apologies. The defection yesterday of the Fernando siblings, on one level, is quite easy to laugh off. If Chamali and Chandila are “senior” party members on the basis that they have failed to get elected to any prominent position within the… Continue reading The Fernandos expose a wider failure
Balls, dirty tricks and candidate selection
The revelations in the Sunday Times this weekend about Ed Balls being the secret puppetmaster behind “smeargate” seem a little thin to me, but they do remind me of an incident a few years ago. Long time readers may recall my ill-fated campaign to get Ed Balls a sex change operation so that he could… Continue reading Balls, dirty tricks and candidate selection