Socialism constantly changes. Every time it is set up it fails. But the half wits think if they change it a bit it can be made to work. So every few years we get a different manifestation.
But socialists are too dense to undertand that the basic concept is bollix.
Private Eye has said that about all newspapers for years. That's because Private Eye is effectively written by these "experienced staff", who use it to bitch about the fact that they are losing their cosy jobs to the younger generation.
A rather naive view, Dave. They might not _explicitly_ appoint candidates, but there are umpty-seven ways in which the union's "preferred" candidate can be an absolute shoe-in.
The selection of a replacement for Eric Joyce in Falkirk in 2013 was simply an unusually incompetent and blatant attempt.
It published Edward Snowden's revelations in defence both of freedom of information, and the freedom of the ordinary citizen from overzealous and quite possibly illegal surveillance by an overmighty State.
Whether you agree with them or not its evident that no other UK newspaper has seemed all that bothered, about this.
Its just won a Court Case following a two year campaign to publish the contents of Prince Charles letters to Govt. Ministers in defence again of freedom of information and open goverrnment.
The only other broadsheer campaigh of comparable significance to Snowden in recent years has been the Telegraph's scoop on MP's expenses. However in this case nobody is interested in Freedom of Information or anything of the kind. All anyone is interested in is MP's with two houses switching their mortgages around and MP's with ?500 toilet seats.
But the point about the "Telegraph" titles is that they had a much older core readership than any of the other qualities. Precisely the sort of readers who are going to be driven away by uneccessary innovation of any kind.
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