Meeting with Michael Gove and Bruce Goodwin at the Pharos meeting about Brexit. I told Michael that the old Tory Party had three separate autonomous elements to it. They were The Parliamentary Party, the Leader's office at CCHQ and the voluntary Party, (the Constituency Associations). Because they were autonomous they had to work together by trusting each other! After 1998 under the new Constitution CCHQ took control and tried to run the Party like a business. Trust broke down because whereas in a business you can contol people by fear(do it or lose your job) or by incentive (do it and you get a pay rise) with volunteers if you place to many onerous conditions on them they just say I have had enough of this and walk away. Trust is lost. That is what has happened with the membership and what will happen with candidates! Michael said he hadn't thought of it like that!
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