http://www.redrag.net/2004/06/17/double-standards/ "The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with 'arguments' from the Tory press." --- Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:29:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.redrag.net/2004/06/17/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3567 Norman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/06/17/double-standards/#comment-3567 Do you REALLY believe, Robert, that a branch stacking battle, conducted within the rules of a Party between two LEGITIMATE members of that Party, is NOT more democratic than the Federal Executive agreeing to give the preselection to someone who had never been in their Party, and had even OPPOSED their candidates in the past? Remember, Turnbull [for whom I have no time whatsoever] made as straightforward statement about the question of DEMOCRATIC processes. Sadly, I have to conceed that he was correct, and no amount of disingenuousness on your part, can alter that --- unless, of course, you deem Federal Executive selection a better way of doing it? I know that's closer to Stalin's "democratic centralism", but I was under the impression that the W.A. Branch of the Labor Party had abandoned that approach? Please tell me I'm not mistaken on this point. p.s. It's good to be back. Do you REALLY believe, Robert, that a branch stacking battle, conducted within the rules of a Party between two LEGITIMATE members of that Party, is NOT more democratic than the Federal Executive agreeing to give the preselection to someone who had never been in their Party, and had even OPPOSED their candidates in the past?
Remember, Turnbull [for whom I have no time whatsoever] made as straightforward statement about the question of DEMOCRATIC processes. Sadly, I have to conceed that he was correct, and no amount of disingenuousness on your part, can alter that — unless, of course, you deem Federal Executive selection a better way of doing it? I know that’s closer to Stalin’s “democratic centralism”, but I was under the impression that the W.A. Branch of the Labor Party had abandoned that approach?
Please tell me I’m not mistaken on this point.
p.s. It’s good to be back.

]]> http://www.redrag.net/2004/06/17/double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-3568 Norman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/06/17/double-standards/#comment-3568 Hullo? Hullo?

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