Is the Labour leadership election process flawed?
There are questions being raised about the integrity of the Labour leadership contest.
It is feared that there are thousands of Tory and other party infiltrators now involved in this election and at least one in ten voters are not even Labour party members, which is falsifying the leadership vote.
Harriet Harman has called a meeting with the four candidates, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn, and Liz Kendall, on Tuesday 25th August, to discuss the integrity of the process. When asked last week, by the media, if this contest was flawed, Harriet Harman said she didn’t believe it was and it was to go ahead, unaltered. There are now more concerns because the Labour candidates have no confidence that the applicants who are voting are being vetted effectively.
Andy Burnham MP said “I do not want members of the Conservative Party deciding the future of the labour party”
What are your views? Do you have confidence in the way applicants to vote are vetted? Do you think the current process should be scrapped and started again with more rigorous scrutiny?
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As far as Jeremy Corbyn is concerned, he seems like a person with actual principles rather than the washed-out nonentities running against him. My bet is that as many "entry-ists" have come in from the Left as wreckers from the rabid Right. Zero sum.
Whoever gets the job will be monstered by the Tawdry press, regardless of quality. Murderoch has reduced political dialogue to the level of kindergarten insults; remember the General Election? Most superficial of my 40-odd years of voting. The international Anglophone press was bemused. Anyone who can raise the standard of debate is surely welcome, regardless of voting method. They'll have to sort the voting system out pdq 'though.
They cannot possibly check everyone out as they don't have the resources to do it. Ed Miliband brought in these changes and history may well show him to be the person who ultimately destroyed the Labour party as serious opposition.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leadership-contest-party-now-fears-infiltration-by-bnp-supporters-10470069.html
which in my Opinion should see this campaign stopped in its tracks. As it is not fair to the true loyal members of the Labour Party who supported them over the last five year and are the only people I think deserves to vote in this contest.