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Previously on "Foreign nationals able to vote in Conservative Leadership election."
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Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
Oi I'm not a foreigner and with a membership of ~180K which hasn't changed much recently I doubt there are many foreign fixers involved
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostSo... the foreigners will end up electing the worst PM ever or someone who isn't quite as bad as Boris. I think we're fsked either way. Well you are.
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So... the foreigners will end up electing the worst PM ever or someone who isn't quite as bad as Boris. I think we're fsked either way. Well you are.
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Originally posted by DaveB View Post
No. Nominations were called for on the 12th July. Ballot closes on 2nd September.
Anyone who was a Tory party member on or before the 2nd June gets to vote. Thats less than 8 weeks ago. I doesn't take a genius to see that Johnson was in trouble well before that. Anyone with an interest in a leadership election had plenty of time to get signed up.
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post
No, it says exactly what I said. I even qualified it with "anymore". Sure, there was an opportunity more than three months ago, that follows logically, just as Labour members could've joined more than three months ago and probably got away with it.
Anyone who was a Tory party member on or before the 2nd June gets to vote. Thats less than 8 weeks ago. I doesn't take a genius to see that Johnson was in trouble well before that. Anyone with an interest in a leadership election had plenty of time to get signed up.
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Originally posted by DaveB View Post
Not quite:
Any foreign party watching the proceedings and aware of this loophole will have had ample chance to exploit it should they have wanted to.
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostThat isn't going to work (anymore) because the cutoff was three months before the start of the campaign.
Originally posted by https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN01366/SN01366.pdfThe Party constitution states that eligibility for Party members to vote in a contested election in stage 2 of leadership elections are those:
...who were members of the Party from the time of the call for nominations by the Chairman of the 1922 Committee for the election of the Leader and have been members for at least three months immediately prior to the close of the ballot for the election of the Leader shall be entitled to vote.2
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That isn't going to work (anymore) because the cutoff was three months before the start of the campaign.
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Originally posted by DaveB View PostSo it seems that you don't actually have to be a UK citizen to vote in the Conservative leadership election. Anyone who pays £5 as a "Young Conservative" and signs up with Conservatives Abroad using whatever bogus credentials they can think up becomes a party member and gets to vote with no checks or challenges.
Can't see that being abused in any way...
https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/statu...36312565661696
https://www.conservativesabroad.org/under-26
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Foreign nationals able to vote in Conservative Leadership election.
So it seems that you don't actually have to be a UK citizen to vote in the Conservative leadership election. Anyone who pays £5 as a "Young Conservative" and signs up with Conservatives Abroad using whatever bogus credentials they can think up becomes a party member and gets to vote with no checks or challenges.
Can't see that being abused in any way...
https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/statu...36312565661696
https://www.conservativesabroad.org/under-26
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