This really is toytown democracy. No ballots have been "rerun" - the original results have simply been adjusted to suit the side that lost. The NEC is beginning to look unreformable. Tear it down and start with something new? pic.twitter.com/l6Qm5TDaPW
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 19, 2021
If list MSP steps down on the list the next person gets seat why would it be any diff. They were always going to do it that way because the NEC had an easy opportunity to get them back. The only thing is how is Fiona going to manage to sit in two seats? Two webcams?
— Ross Quinn (@rwq1987) May 20, 2021
I think language matters. If they had said "the runner-up has been co-opted because it's not practicable to rerun the ballot" that would have been less outrageous than "We've rerun the ballot, and guess what, I'm the winner, isn't it exciting!!!! Such a whirlwind!!!!"
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 20, 2021
"we ran those who got more votes than us out of town, and... hey, look, I'm top of the list now! 🤷♂️"
— Jo Wilson (@Buhjuhwuh) May 20, 2021
This is the point. Some people are talking as if appointing the runner-up is entirely natural and democratic, but if Keir Starmer resigned, he wouldn't be replaced by Rebecca Long-Bailey.https://t.co/g3pevDcJ53
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 20, 2021
Ah, so if Joe Biden resigns, the winner of the election was Donald Trump. To be clear, that's what you're saying, yes? C'mon, Claire, you don't need time to think.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 20, 2021
I came close to resigning this morning but will stay long enough to take part in the election with a heavy heart. Even if their is nothing wrong with what they are doing it looks more and more of a dictatorship and the membership being disenfranchised.
ReplyDeleteThis is farcical and is in no possible way 'democratic'. The only correct solution is of course a new ballot, which could be run electronically, and thus quickly and efficiently. It should not be necessary to point out that if people have left and circumstances changed, then you cannot simply rig the old ballot to suit your purposes now. People voted for a host of reasons, and there is absolutely no possible logic to saying that the losers in the last election would magically come first in new ones, which is the presumption, a very handy one when one of the most divisive and controversial figures, who is a Sturgeon ally, suddenly regains a post from which she was rejected by the membership. Elections are often about who you do not want, rather than who you do, and she was rejected last time.
ReplyDeleteThis is gerrymandering, an insult to the people who are supposed to be the backbone of the party and who infuriated Sturgeon last year by throwing out a lot of her ideological allies along with their agenda, one never discussed adequately or voted on.
The SNP has become a Sturgeon cult, and she has consistently used dubious means to reappoint her buddies when they have been rejected by the electorate.
She is a despot who has implemented one party, one leader absolutism. The SNP will continue to leak members. Why would you want to stay, be ignored, and then kicked in the teeth when you have voted against the people who are now awarded plum jobs for their loyalty to the politboro?
You talk about Sturgeon an awful lot, much more than SNP members / voters do. Are you sure it's not you with the cult-like obsession?
DeleteAnd while the BAME/Disabled list bumping was another well intended but with obvious dumb unfair consequences policy from the SNP, it can hardly be linked to some kind of Sturgeon cult.
Unless, that is, you think Sturgeon is a true champion of disabled and ethnic minorities, as evidenced by these groups all being her strong supporters '('buddies')? In which case, it would be natural that right wing bigots don't like her?
Do we even know that they were the runners up? Were the original results published? Seem to remember there was a suspiciously long wait after the electronic ballot?
ReplyDeleteIs this for the Alba list elections or for the SNP?
DeleteSalmond resigned for no real reason - idiotic - he ceded control of an openly democratic political machine to Nicola who almost immediately took advantage of a huge influx of party-politically-naive members. Bet Salmond regrets his idiotic choice now cause I certainly do.
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