Conservative Party - will they ever learn?

 It has been announced that Kevin Hollinrake MP has been appointed the new Party Chairman, so once again we have a Party Chairman unelected and unaccountable to the members of the Party.   He is the 26th Party Chairman in the last 25 years, so can we expect the next Party Chairman to be appointed within the next year?   CCHQ needs to be completely reorganised, but don't expect it to happen!   The best and most successful Party Chairman was Lord Woolton who served as Chairman for nine years.

The Tories confirmed that sitting MP Bernard Jenkin has been made Vice Chairman of the Candidates Committee.   Another position unelected and unaccountable to Party members!   The Establishment at work!

On 21st July an invitation was made to become a Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate.   It said

We want to build an army of candidates that can be successful.

Hear hear! 

We need to select candidates who can be champions for their local areas but who, in time, can serve in a radical, transforming government once again. 

Hear hear!

We want a new cohort of future Conservative politicians who really believe in less tax, less interference, less regulation and a government that achieves the change that our country needs. Candidates who are going to hold the civil service to account, who are willing to change things, and who are willing to make difficult decisions.

Hear hear!

We are searching for people from across the community, with a wide variety of transferable skills and experiences. We are prioritising the four Cs - communication, charisma, cleverness and conservatism.

Sounds good but who is going to judge whether someone has a variety of transferable skills?

Who is going to judge what skills they should have?

Who is going to decide who has charisma?

Who is going to decide who is clever?

Who is going to decide what is conservatism ?

These are all subjective and each person will have a different view.   That is why Parliamentary Candidates should be elected by Party members with minimum interference from CCHQ.  After all do we really believe that Clare Hambro, Bernard Jenkin and Elizabeth Gibson are the founts of all wisdom?

This is a classic Establishment stitch up of the kind that has been demonstrated to be a disaster for the last twenty years

As a Conservative politician you will have the opportunity to make a real and lasting difference to the constituents who elect you and to the future of our great country.

Hear hear!