It's a wonderful idea, but it's incomplete. Let's say everyone's chosen through primaries, and then chooses between the winning nominees at the General Election.
Then they get to Westminster.
And the whips get to work on the new MPs. And unless you weaken the whips and get rid of three-line whips altogether, they still end up being coerced to do the party's bidding.
Reform the whipping process as well as adding primaries.
It's a wonderful idea, but it's incomplete. Let's say everyone's chosen through primaries, and then chooses between the winning nominees at the General Election.
Then they get to Westminster.
And the whips get to work on the new MPs. And unless you weaken the whips and get rid of three-line whips altogether, they still end up being coerced to do the party's bidding.
Reform the whipping process as well as adding primaries.
dblissmn 2 years ago