UFGN wrote:LMAO wrote:UFGN wrote:Pat Rice in Short Shorts wrote:LMAO wrote:How do your party leadership elections work?
Is it like our closed primaries where you have to be registered for a certain party to be allowed to vote for your preferred candidate to represent the seat in question in an election (except in your case, to be party leader)? And if so, is it a winner-take-all system or some weird electoral vote system (where each district is allotted a specific number of votes that goes to the candidate with the greatest popular vote in that district, and in the end, all the districts are pooled together and the candidate with the most electoral votes wins) like in some of our primaries?
So like, if Starmer, for instance, gets a plurality (or a majority) of the popular vote, he's leader and that's done and dusted?
Each party has its own rules. Labour currently holds an election restricted to MPs and EMPs plus a few other entities that are key party players. The general public really has no say.
Members of the public can join the Labour party, and then they get a vote.
The Leader is always an MP, it would be unthinkable for them not to choose an MP as leader
This is a good summary of the process
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/po ... t-hopefuls
Muchas gracias.
Is a poll tax not illegal in the UK? Because needing to pay in order to vote is unconstitutional here (even though some states/polling stations violate the 24th Amendment).
The point of view taken is that you are paying to join and support the political party. All main parties charge to join as a member to varying degrees
It is obviously free to vote in an election though.
The vast majority of citizens are not members of any political party, even people who vote for a party their whole life probably are not actually a member of that party.
(The phrase "poll tax" is extremely toxic in the UK and sends a shudder down the spine. Cheers Thatcher........ )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_riots
Ah okay. Makes it seem like being a party member is more of a weird, exclusive social club idk how to explain it. I guess my views are shaped by my American experience since it costs nothing here to register for a party if you so wish and most primaries are open primaries (you don't have to be a member of a specific party to vote for a candidate of said party, but you only get to vote in one party's primary).
Lol so y'all have experienced the wonders of the poll tax too.