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Originally Posted by jaysay
Well the bottom line is I won't have any say in the selection proses, for two reasons firstly The candidate is selected by members attending the meeting, no proxy nor postal votes aloud, as I will be unable To attend the meeting, I will not be going to the meeting for health reasons. The second is that to vote you have to be a paid up party member, at this moment in time I have my membership renewal form sat on my desk and its been there for two weeks and as I said to Graham Jones last week on here, I would not be renewing it if they forced a candidates list on Hyndburn or even tried
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I wasn't being ironic. If the grass-root members of a party, the ones who've worked tirelessly year after year, don't have a say in who they can select, I can see why you would be fighting for the right to chose your own candidate, otherwise it isn't democratic.
Happily being non-partisan, and never having been a member of any political party, I've never had to worry about such power struggles.