On purges

Back when the Cons first announced their decision to allow nomination challenges to their sitting MPs, I theorized that the party machinery would be more likely to support relatively moderate candidates against the looniest of the right-wing loons than to try to drive out Garth Turner and his ilk. But with Turner's expulsion following the Cons' efforts to protect Rob Anders and company, it's looking more and more likely that the worst fears about the nomination process were true - and that Rahim Jaffer and the Con caucus merely did today what the Cons may have hoped a nomination meeting would do earlier.