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Manchester Withington Selection: Hustings Venue
Hurrah! Miraculously an alternative venue for the final hustings has been found which does not favour any of the candidates. Hats off to the procedure secretary and the fairness compliance officer and most of all to those who politely complained and those who politely listened.
Hopefully there will be no "gags" about beauty contests and no lines about "my, how this place has improved, thanks to a Labour government, since I went to school right here" (and before I sodded off to London). We had both these winning moves at the initial hustings.
Two or three stuck in the beauty contest one. Only one of these has survived. Only one was able to do the school one. Her much improved primary school, due to have been followed because of force majeure by her much improved secondary school. I kid you not. But they've seen sense.
We'll not have these lines at the final hustings. Hurrah for people power!
2 comments:
How do you mean force majeure?
The fixers were I'm told saying that the only hall with the required capacity available at reasonable cost was the one strongly associated with their Lordships' favourite candidate.
So just bad luck.
Allegedly £100 in the price. LoL suggested that paying £100 extra for a bit of fairness was not actually such a bad idea. Others asked for a change including several candidates I believe.
The capacity needed was enough for every member to attend if they wished. In fact almost one third of the members have applied for postal votes and their reasons have passed muster.
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