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  Actually, Howard/PaulB - the local Party had a vote on the matter, 132 votes to retain the candidate with only 37 against. That means she got 78% in favour, a very impressive vote of confidence and is clearly the choice of the local party.
  
  The 'Turnip Taliban', a wonderful phrase that, despite all the noise and bluster were shown to be only that, noise and bluster.
  
  It is important that the Party centrally has the ability to sift candidates and to draw up a list of approved people. The local party then select a 'long list' of applicants from the approved list. Beyond that the procedures do vary with open or closed primaries and other forms of selection available to the local party. At certain points a curtailed form of selection takes place, before by-elections for instance, in which Central Office has more say. Selections from January will use the curtailed process.
  
  There is always a balance to strike and sometimes there can be an excessive degree of pressure centrally on local parties over the short list/selection method without a doubt. The objective must always be to get the best and highest calibre of candidate selected that is also acceptable to the local party.

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