Why don't ALL UK parties make MPs face compulsory re-selection before each general election?

[Ken Burch]

7. What seems to be happening, from what I can see,

is that a lot of MPs seem to feel they won in spite of their constituency party, that the constituency party members shouldn't have any real say in running the party(this, I think, particularly true of post-1997 Labour MPs, who may well feel that they ONLY got elected by telling the constituency activists to get stuffed in some way or other).

These MPs have the mindset that THEY are the party and no one else is.

If someone is going to sit as an independent, then fine, they have the right to see themselvers as solely responsible for their personal victory in the constituency. But for a party to BE a party, doesn't the MP need to feel that she, they, or he owes the people who work to keep them, him and her in office? That the MP owes some respect to the principles those people fight for and the work that they do in preserving the MPs career?

Perhaps a kind of party "primary" could be devised, if the issue is that MPs feel constituency activists shouldn't be the only people who determine whether the MP gets to stand again at the general election.