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Re: To Gordon Brown and the next deputy leader (#15)

by JR on Mon May 28, 2007 at 02:19:58 AM GMT

Leaders should broadly follow the aims and principles of a party, but not every specific detail every minute of every day. A Prime Minister has to have flexibility and since he's the elected head of government and nobody has elected the people who vote at party conference, he has more of a mandate to make policy.


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Re: To Gordon Brown and the next deputy leader (#30)

by otware on Mon May 28, 2007 at 01:07:24 PM GMT

But under our electoral system the PM is not the elected head o government. He is just another constituency MP who happens to be the leader of a party with an unfiarly inflated majority.

There is a big difference between converting party policy into government policy and totally ignoring party policy in the formation of government policy. Would you say that the government has taken any notice of official party policy on the issues of rail nationalisation, privatisation in the NHS etc? I wouldn't.


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Re: To Gordon Brown and the next deputy leader (#33)

by JR on Mon May 28, 2007 at 01:32:22 PM GMT

The party hasn't been given a vote - only the Conference which is not the same thing.

I agree with FPTP in the Commons - I wouldn't say it's unfair - but there does need to be an elected upper house to counter-balance it.


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