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The first step *has* to be taking control of candidate approval from central office.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/democracy-in-decay-the-shadowy-unelected-figures-who-scuppered-our-country/ Para 4

...Dougie Smith, who apparently controlled Tory candidate selection for the 2019 General Election. Although theoretically the Tories stood on a Brexit platform, it is now obvious the process was doomed from the start due to the policy of Conservative HQ stuffing safe seats with Remain-inclined, Liberal Democrat ‘One Nation’ candidates...

[ linked to https://thecritic.co.uk/the-curious-case-of-dougie-smith/]

I despair to think how many good Conservative politicians and potential ministers never had a chance to stand.

If local constituencies are allowed to select who they choose, we will doubtless see much dross (no change there), but also a few outstanding people.

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On balance I agree that the long haul to reform the Conservative Party will in the end be more successful than constant breakaway parties.

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'29? Forget it, I'm not hanging around in Golf Clubs or drinking with young farmers just to see if a rehashed Churchill or Thatcher emerges from some chrysalis nurtured in a dark laboratory. Beneath some stately home. On a forgotten island. The Left excel at producing monsters, they won.

Tired of politics now, it's just engineered bickering. The ones with the most to say do the least.

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Fine, but I feel I have to point out that Momentum didn’t lead Labour to victory in a GE and has now largely been neutered or expelled from the party. What makes you think it will be different on the right, where let’s be clear, the media reaction will be vastly more hostile to RW entryists. (Remember communism is romanticised as well meaning but wrong. Anything that can be merely associated with right wing nationalism will be tarred as basically Nazi)

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< “It’s time for a new generation to take over, who aren’t steeped in the dogma of yore.” >

The “dogma of yore” could be the implied belief that the human race can continue indefinitely expanding and generally living ever more extravagantly whilst consuming finite natural resources.

But the human race cannot continue indefinitely on what is an unsustainable existence. Sensibly, it should change direction so as to exist a lot more sustainably with nature.

Would any political party in a so-called democracy standing for a lowering of so-called living standards win at an election? No.

So, a “new generation” taking over in a democracy would not succeed in putting the country, let alone the world, onto a much more sustainable existence, an existence much more in harmony with nature.

To put the human race onto a much more sustainable trajectory would require the “new generation” to represent the human race on a global scale. There would be no place for the nation state or for democracy.

Maybe, just maybe, such a transition is happening right now.

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Isn't this about the global elite, the incorruptible heavenly angels (not)? We were a kingdom before we were a democracy. It would be better to take seriously what the king swore to do, to obey the God who created and sustains nature.

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Well John, perhaps history is repeating itself on a global scale. The human race having eventually gone through a period as a Global ‘Kingdom’ will return to Democracy on a global scale.

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I’ve read you with reserved enthusiasm. Now I see you and the full picture.

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By all means, fill the rest of us in!

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