Travesty in BC

There is no other word for this. A riding association which for years had an average of 200 members suddenly balloons to 2000, mostly from a single ethnic group, just before a nomination meeting, and a popular two-term MP with a record of legislative achievement is turfed. When are the parties going to fix this appalling, degrading system of instant memberships, sold (and purchased) by the crateload? We are the only advanced democracy (I use the term loosely) that I know of that tolerates this nonsense. In the States they have registered party members affiliations, of course, but I've never heard of this thing happening in, say, Britain. Apparently, the British have this quaint notion that to vote for a candidate in a party nomination battle, you should actually have been a member of the party for more than, say, five minutes. Mind you, they also take a dim view of letting busloads of elderly drunks, non-citizens, children and the deceased decide these things, so they're obviously behind the times.