By now, political parties should have realised that popularity alone is a dangerously weak basis for selecting parliamentary candidates. For far too long, our politics has confused loudness with leadership and flamboyance with competence.<\/p>\n
We have seen criminals, people hiding behind so-called big family names, godfather prot\u00e9g\u00e9s… By now, political parties should have realised that popularity alone is a dangerously weak basis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence.jpg",640,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence.jpg",640,640,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence.jpg",640,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence.jpg",640,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence.jpg",640,640,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence.jpg",640,640,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence-640x575.jpg",640,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194614-stop-elevating-loudness-over-competence-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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