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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45621354
<p class="story-body__introduction">Labour's annual conference has voted to make it easier for local party members to deselect sitting MPs.</p>
Until now, Labour MPs only faced a reselection contest if 50% of a constituency's local branches and affiliated unions voted for it in a so-called "trigger ballot".Delegates in Liverpool voted for that threshold to be reduced to 33%.
The deselection campaign is seen by some Labour MPs as an attempt to "purge" critics of Jeremy Corbyn.
If you belong to a party and the members don't want you should you be able to stand? Should it be easier to remove an MP from a safe seat of they don't represent the values of the party?
If you are not with the party then feel free to stand as an independent?
It's one of these things that can be spun both ways obviously, any better ideas?
Should it be easier to remove an MP from a safe seat of they don’t represent the values of the party?
Yes, but then where would we be if we had MPs just following the Party Line?
We’d be right where we are today, that’s where.
Yes, but then where would we be if we had MPs just following the Party Line?
You already have that with the whip and the cash bribe, sorry, junior minister positions for the party which is in government.
Whereas the Labour party proposals are about giving the local party more power. Which is why some of those MPs who got parachuted in under new labour aint too keen on the idea.
I think this is right. Too many MPs think theirs is a job for life and completely ignore both their constituents and local party
Idiots like Hoey should be removed.
It's a dangerous game to play.
It’s a dangerous game to play.
dangerous like Russian Roulette or paper cuts from monopoly?
Corbyn may have been deselected if the same rules had been brought in 20 years ago.
it IS a dangerous game to play,
He could have been, he could have stood independently if that was the case, was he that unpopular with his local party?