Emmeline wrote:chairman bill wrote:One of the changes Corbyn wants to see is the constituency parties deciding on their candidates for Parliament, rather than a group of apparatchiks in Labour HQ parachuting their preferred candidates into safe seats. That's part of that devolving power thing. If the constituency parties determine the candidates for the seat, those CLPs who voted for Corbyn might not be too enamoured with a Labour MP who is always trying to undermine him. That's the thing with democracy - those elected aren't guaranteed to always be in the positions they were once elected to.
This is a bit confusing isn't it? On the one hand it's all democracy & diversity of views across the party and on the other, it's threats of deselection for being 'disloyal'. Corbyn can't have it both ways can he.
Once more it doesn't need to be confusing, as there's no contradiction.
Once the party is opened up to democracy and greater power on the part of local CLPs, one of the things that MIGHT emerge from that is dissatisfaction on the part of those CLPs with the MPs that have been appointed to "represent" them.