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wozza

Lets hope nobody who has recently been made redundant from CCO appears on it.

That would give the appearance that deals are being made at the top - despite denials - and that the list isn't very worthy or meritocratic at all.

Derek

I would be amazed if any "further measures" were taken, whatever the results of selection produce. David Cameron and Francis Maude have gone as far as they dare, in my opinion. The public are not in the least interested in the manipulation of our candidate selection, nor in the number of women MPs.

Andrea

How big will the top up be?

Hannibal

Are you publishing the names on the top up list too?

Westminster Tory

Around 200 or so tealented, white, male, heterosexual candidates will finally recognise that their careers are over.

Do you honestly think that they will accept that wimmin2win cabal that runs the candidates committee has ruined their chances of getting a safe or winnable seats?


Editor

I don't know, Andrea, although I've heard the top-up may be 85.

Yes as I receive them, Hannibal, but I'm not going to search them out in the way I did last time. For all of the reasons given in my briefing - the A-list seems so much less important than it did two, three months ago.

James Maskell

Bearing in mind that one of the key people in Women2Win is married to the person in charge of candidate selection in the Party, the most recent poster is pretty much on the money.

As for Derek, Im praying to the heavens that an Association refuses to tow the line here. I think every Association should do as they please...its their constituencies up for grabs and they are the ones having to work their asses off year in year out (despite what Marland thinks about the voluntary Party). Might as well let them have a free hand with who to be their front person.

Andrea

"I don't know, Andrea, although I've heard the top-up may be 85"

Thanks, Mr Editor

Sophie Hamilton

To Westminster Tory - why should white male hetrosexual tories have a monopoly and a preserve on careers in politics? Is it truly democratic for the Party to be represented 91% male MPs? Do you really believe that there are not equal numbers of educated articulate career orientated women? Is that really not your experience in the workplace? Or maybe you work in Westminster? That is not the real world. Women in the real world are educated, intelligent and articulate and make excellent MPs and Councillors and business people. Thank you CCHQ for recognising that it is not just white men that can have careers with influence, power and authority - and what about the generations of women that have been denied these opportunties. Westminster Tory did you know that that the UK is 51st in the world in terms of female representation? Did you know that this is solely due to the efforts of the Labour Party otherwise we would fall off the bottom of the scale? Do you really not know of intelligent able women who are on merit as good as men in all areas of the workplace? I am amazed that in today's world men really feel so resentful at the prospect of equalilty? We all believe in meritocracy in the Conservative Party and we all believe in a level playing field. Westminster Tory are you really a Tory and do you really expect women to vote for you or a party that shares your perspective? Thank goodness for David Cameron who is seeking to rescue the party from people who hold the views you hold. It would be enough to make me vote for any other party if I thought the party espoused your views. We believe in freedom, enterprise and and opportuntity for all - note the word all - not just white middle class men.

Sophie Hamilton

To Westminster Tory - why should white male hetrosexual tories have a monopoly and a preserve on careers in politics? Is it truly democratic for the Party to be represented 91% male MPs? Do you really believe that there are not equal numbers of educated articulate career orientated women? Is that really not your experience in the workplace? Or maybe you work in Westminster? That is not the real world. Women in the real world are educated, intelligent and articulate and make excellent MPs and Councillors and business people. Thank you CCHQ for recognising that it is not just white men that can have careers with influence, power and authority - and what about the generations of women that have been denied these opportunties. Westminster Tory did you know that that the UK is 51st in the world in terms of female representation? Did you know that this is solely due to the efforts of the Labour Party otherwise we would fall off the bottom of the scale? Do you really not know of intelligent able women who are on merit as good as men in all areas of the workplace? I am amazed that in today's world men really feel so resentful at the prospect of equalilty? We all believe in meritocracy in the Conservative Party and we all believe in a level playing field. Westminster Tory are you really a Tory and do you really expect women to vote for you or a party that shares your perspective? Thank goodness for David Cameron who is seeking to rescue the party from people who hold the views you hold. It would be enough to make me vote for any other party if I thought the party espoused your views. We believe in freedom, enterprise and and opportuntity for all - note the word all - not just white middle class men.

Conservative-man

Sophie

In the first tranche of the A list, 80% of the women who applied, got through, about 20% of the men did. Either the selection procedure was biased, or for some reason we had for more talented female than male candidates - this seems unlikely.

Of course women are talented, but equally, for whatever reason, many talented women have not chosen to go into politics. To suggest positive discrimination to correct the situation is for many meritocratic Conservatives an affront to their political philosophies.

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