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Deselection fuelled by sub-standard Googling   

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Yesterday saw confirmation from South West Norfolk Conservatives that they are to hold a deselected ballot to decide whether their candidate Elizabeth Truss will be allowed to stand, following concerns that she withheld information about an affair with a former Shadow Minister.

An extraordinary story, it raises a series of questions for the local party – “so what?”, “who cares?” and “can you please stop burgling our time?” for example. 

The South West Norfolk-ites aren’t calling for the deselection of Mark Field, so presumably their belated research has concluded the affair was all her fault – an enlightened view from the days of witch-burning.

But even if you agree that this affects her ability to be an MP, it's staggering they can claim the information was withheld.  In an era where the internet has bought research/stalking to the computers of the masses, the most basic of internet searches would have revealed the information – she can hardly be blamed for choosing not to lead with it in her selection speech.

The fact that the local party are prepared to publicly acknowledge the weakness of their own Googling skills shows just how high they regard their moral stance, which just makes them look even more ridiculous.

2,000 years on, maybe its time we forgave womankind for Eve’s misdemeanours in the Garden of Eden and all moved on? 

 

Published Nov 05 2009, 05:38 PM by Chris West

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