When we sat down to discuss the internet campaign for the leadership election, Ming was absolutely adamant that it should be a listening campaign. That we shouldn’t just be putting his views across, but also running the campaign in a way that meant we were hearing the views of the party’s members and supporters.

To that end, we’ve put a blog onto our site and to decided to allow comments on the blog. On some other political blogs, a minority have abused this opportunity: we’d prefer people to stay on topic and maintain a civil discourse with other readers; however, we want people to feel free to engage in discussion on most subjects. As a last resort, we do reserve the right to remove or edit comments that are rude, derogatory, discriminatory, libelous, slanderous, uncivil, include inappropriate language or violate copyright – but our intention is that this should be very rare. We’re keen to keep this channel open ongoing: if you have any ideas as to how we can do this most effectively, please let us know.

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