cromwell wrote:News flash - the Labour leader is elected by one man one vote of members, registered supporters and trade union affiliates. That IS democracy. Why is one man one vote OK for South Africa but no good for the Labour party?
Probably because the half a million Labour party members do not represent the views of the vast majority of Labour voters. If you have a party which is 1% of the UK but represents only the views of 1% of the UK you will only get 1% of the votes.
That makes it bad because the members who vote are driving the party away from the voters and that means MP's will lose their seats.
Well that's the theory. We shall await the practise. But the point is this. So long as the party members vote for Corbyn he's going to stay. If enough MP's and councillors lose their seats then there will be increasing pressure to form another party.
Works for me.... Democracy all the way. It's like all those people who voted the name for the new British expedition ship to be Boaty McBoatface....
Yeah, right!
Aggers, Corbyn is not good old fashioned socialism. He's reading right form the Communism card. Not, I think, what most people in the UK want. The 400,000 or so who voted for him are another matter...
Still it all works for me. It'll tear the Labour party to pieces and I won't cry over that.