Membership sales have now wrapped up for the Conservative leadership race.
Who will be the first candidate to complain about the process or complain about the numbers they say they reported?
Who will be the first candidate to claim some mysterious force didn’t count their memberships correctly resulting in them losing the race similar to Trump in the USA?
This has been a nasty race so far, very divisive and offers the potential for long term damage to the party.
Can these candidates work together, or will they even want to work together after it is over is a major issue that has not been addressed?
Certainly, the ugliness of this campaign has turned many members supporting one candidate against other candidates and their supporters.
Unless the leadership contenders smarten up, they will create long lasting damage to the party and its chances of winning election.
The modern CPC is a coalition of ideas and members. Using wedge politics to divide the party into warring factions is a recipe for disaster and the party will end up spending a long time in the political wilderness.
