Pledging all military support I can muster to his cause
tifihf on
Title essentially unrelated, this is interesting news from a foreign interference perspective. To the extent that any MP appears to be acting at the behest of another government MP Arya is among the most likely.
Now, despite almost no profile within the Liberal party, he has announced a leadership bid.
Without making this an I/P thread one of the few policy planks of the bid is recognizing Palestine as a state.
It will be interesting to see how the Liberal executive responds to the challenge of foreign interference as it attempts to design a truncated leadership election.
I do not know how, purely mechanically, this challenge could be meaningfully addressed.
In my view it is surprising that there has not been even more interference in internal party races of all stripes in the past. Disengagement has left many of the parties bereft of volunteers, and eager to make space for anyone who can get ballots in boxes, regardless of whether those voters have any relationship with the party’s broader aims.
Le1bn1z on
I think the monarchy is worth keeping around if only because it helps to identify and weed out deeply unserious candidates for high office who don’t know how our constitution works and are too afraid to ask.
This would require unanimous consent from all provinces.
Even if a PM *could* get that on anything, which they can’t, they couldn’t get them to agree to what the new system for reserve powers and appointment of Head of State would be.
And even if a PM *could* get them to agree to that, which they can’t, they couldn’t get them to agree to waive the longstanding demands that several provinces or critical interests in them insist be met before any other amendments are agreed, all of which are nonstarters with the other provinces and contradict what other provinces want changed.
This guy is not a serious person, and this proposal should not be taken seriously.
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Pledging all military support I can muster to his cause
Title essentially unrelated, this is interesting news from a foreign interference perspective. To the extent that any MP appears to be acting at the behest of another government MP Arya is among the most likely.
Now, despite almost no profile within the Liberal party, he has announced a leadership bid.
Without making this an I/P thread one of the few policy planks of the bid is recognizing Palestine as a state.
It will be interesting to see how the Liberal executive responds to the challenge of foreign interference as it attempts to design a truncated leadership election.
I do not know how, purely mechanically, this challenge could be meaningfully addressed.
In my view it is surprising that there has not been even more interference in internal party races of all stripes in the past. Disengagement has left many of the parties bereft of volunteers, and eager to make space for anyone who can get ballots in boxes, regardless of whether those voters have any relationship with the party’s broader aims.
I think the monarchy is worth keeping around if only because it helps to identify and weed out deeply unserious candidates for high office who don’t know how our constitution works and are too afraid to ask.
This would require unanimous consent from all provinces.
Even if a PM *could* get that on anything, which they can’t, they couldn’t get them to agree to what the new system for reserve powers and appointment of Head of State would be.
And even if a PM *could* get them to agree to that, which they can’t, they couldn’t get them to agree to waive the longstanding demands that several provinces or critical interests in them insist be met before any other amendments are agreed, all of which are nonstarters with the other provinces and contradict what other provinces want changed.
This guy is not a serious person, and this proposal should not be taken seriously.
K