What a way to pick a Prime Minister. A tiny non representative group of people conditioned by tradition.
The poll numbers are expected to be between 140,000 and 160,000 members, most of whom are older males.
Over half of the members are over sixty and tend to be in the top three wealth bands, so why worry about the future when you’re already part of an ageing well off group.
97% are white which makes it easier for a candidate like Liz Truss to appeal to inbuilt prejudices, with the assistance of braying idiots such as Rees-Mogg, Nadine Dorries etc.
I hope that the conservative members voting will have learnt a hard lesson with the recent fiasco that has been Boris Johnson, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
It’s wrong that approximately 0.4% of the voting population should be able to impose such an important decision on the rest of the population, but that sadly is what you get with ‘Party Politics’.