Disruptive Proactivity

In a few weeks, a subset of people get to vote on who might be the next Prime Minster of the country. They’ll need to battle out a general election first, but whoever is Labour leader on 26th Sept is somewhere around 50% likely to be the next PM.

You can still register to vote in this election – it’s only for labour members, so you have to join, which costs about 20 quid (£1 for under 27s). And if you join before around the end of August, you get a say. Yes, I’ve joined temporarily.

My local MP is a relatively useless/harmless libdem; and the local labour PPC is a party sycophant. Previously, that may have been substantially conjecture (certainly according to her supporters it was unsupportable untrue conjecture) – but she’s currently managing Ed Miliband’s leadership campaign – so the chances of Lucy Powell doing what’s in Withington’s interests over those of a Miliband are precisely zero. As a result, there’s little chance that the representation of Withington in the House is going to get much better any time soon; which suggests that it might be useful to engage where possible in other things.

As I have no desire to be a member any longer than necessary, I will be resigning my membership shortly after the result is announced. But, with a chanced to influence that decision, I’ll take it – because would you leave it to the people who want to be members of the labour party to choose the next PM?

If you’re interested in doing the same, and want a resignation reminder, fill in this form and I’ll email you. Although it’ll probably be in the news a bit when it happens, so I’d not worry too much about missing it.

I wonder whether there’s something more fun we could do with youtube…