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 <description>&lt;p&gt;And so, having linked, I may as well cite &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-daily-pundit.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-many-more-bagshawes-and-lits-are.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Daily Pundit&lt;/a&gt; who writes about the number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2008/01/candidate-set-t.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NuTory candidates&lt;/a&gt; who were once NuLabour members. But it&#039;s not so much their political backgrounds that I want to take issue with - to me the interchangeability of such political favours merely highlights that both parties are really merely sibling subsidiaries of the post-Thatcher Managerial Clique.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, what I&#039;m more interested in is how a serious political party, claiming to be democrats of some sort, and on the one hand with its leader wanting to hold &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://conservativehome.blogs.com/toryleadership/2005/11/q11_open_primar.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;public primaries&lt;/a&gt;&quot; for some of its candidates, selects its candidates through some sort of appointed committee and without an all-member vote in the consitutency or jurisdiction concerned.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s not just the successor to Doris that was selected this way, but apparently the &lt;a href=&quot;http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2008/01/saj-karim-mep-a.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Judas Karim&lt;/a&gt; for the North West Euro-Parliament list. No wonder the latter thought his chances better with the Tories if he really only needed to butter up a few committee members rather than reach out to the activists and members.&lt;/p&gt;
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