Democracy is one person, one vote

Keith Whitfield's reply to my criticism of the recent Labour party leadership election as being costly, inefficient and wasteful seems to rely on the assertion that the drawn out dreadful process was justifiable because it was democratic.

Unfortunately, as with so much that the Labor party does and has done recently, the whole exercise proved itself to be a charade.

Around 60 per cent of the 30,000 or so members of the party voted for Anthony Albanese and for their pains saw Bill Shorten elected by the factions within caucus.

A truly democratic process requires one person, one vote.

The outcome of the whole fiasco is that the Labor party now has a leader that 60 per cent of the voters did not want.

This is a situation I predict we will hear more of in coming months.

Email, 29 Oct 2013

Vic Jefferies, Huberts Island