Pay attention! We're going to vote!

    I cannot understand how the current Labour Party can hope to govern our fine country when they cannot even manage their own party leadership contest.  It seems to me - and I am just an ordinary British subject of our fair land - not a politician; not a journalist; not a writer - that to invite 'all and sundry' to register and then vote is the want of juveniles.

    

   I hear that there are vetting procedures in place to make sure that applicants are bonafide, but what does that mean? Who on earth would devise such a ridiculous system to elect its leader? It seems that we have Ed Milliband to thank for this extreme variation of leadership selection. Thank goodness he's not in power!

 

   Surely it is up to the Labour Members of Parliament to choose their leader. Only they will know who they can work with, respect and  support and have the inside knowledge of  his or her  strengths and weaknesses.  From  observing and listening to three of the four  contestants, I just hear more of the same old stuff...

  

   Almost every day, they come up with various schemes to try to secure votes. To bend the party into a vote catching organisation instead of sticking to its core principles.  They seem to have forgotten the prize.  It is not to change everything so that people will vote for them, it is to put Labour policies to the electorate and ask them to decide, firstly blending socialism into a proven capitalist system so that everybody benefits. 

   No greatness amongst them then! 

   Nobody to set our expectations alight!  

   

  Except for Jeremy Corben perhaps; but he will have to find a way to bring his brand of socialism into a capitalist world because make no bones, socialism alone cannot survive. 

 

   We need a Labour Party to look out for working people.  Not just the low paid and the 'usual suspects' - often branded as the trouble makers in our society - but the millions of 'normal' genuine people who work for a living.  How can it be right, that decent hardworking people, often with several jobs and long unsociable hours cannot earn enough to provide themselves with a home and modest standard of living without government handouts. The state subsidises them because it is too busy looking after the rich and powerful, keeping wages low and big business profits high. Time for a change don't you think. Time to re balance. Trouble is when the socialists become rich, they become Conservatives. The rich and powerful.