Wednesday, September 28, 2005
...it still is not clear who is taking part or when the winner will be declared or who will decide it....
Rare comedy in grauniad leader: ;)
The Conservative party has spent six months getting itself into a tangle and yesterday, with a bit of tugging from MPs and activists, pulled the knots even tighter. After devoting itself to a contest about how to run a contest, the party has settled on the strangest outcome it could find.
MPs and activists have both voted for new rules but not in sufficient numbers to implement them, which means they are stuck with a system they do not want.
This simply adds to the sense of a race without logic, one in which it still is not clear who is taking part or when the winner will be declared or who will decide it.
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The Conservative party has spent six months getting itself into a tangle and yesterday, with a bit of tugging from MPs and activists, pulled the knots even tighter. After devoting itself to a contest about how to run a contest, the party has settled on the strangest outcome it could find.
MPs and activists have both voted for new rules but not in sufficient numbers to implement them, which means they are stuck with a system they do not want.
This simply adds to the sense of a race without logic, one in which it still is not clear who is taking part or when the winner will be declared or who will decide it.
more
