The following was sent to Eric Wilson on Saturday, but he has not even replied, and it seems to confirm that the Labour Party is hopelessly incompetent from top to bottom, with no part of it having the first clue what any other part is doing, and with absolutely no idea how to deal with anyone who stands up to its bullying:
Dear Mr Wilson,
Following on from the Derwentside DLP notice, the notice of a "Young Labour Halloween Party" (just how old does one have to be in order to be spared these things?), and Gordon Bown's message about climate change, the appended [a message from Stephen Hughes MEP] is the fourth members' communication that I have received since my "auto-exclusion" on no identifiable ground except the threat of a parliamentary candidate anywhere who held my views, and of such a candidate here in this constituency with his base in Derwentside, both of which threats you, and those at whose behest you operate, clearly take with the utmost seriousness.
The DLP, Young Labour, the National Party and the Regional Party are thus unanimous that no such exclusion has taken place, and I therefore demand both your confirmation to that effect and an unconditional apology for insulting, defaming and attempting to defraud me; that apology must be on your own part personally, on the part of the Membership Department, and on the part of Hilary Armstrong MP (at whose command, or at the very least on whose behalf, this whole situation has undoubtedly arisen).
Furthermore, I demand a written reprimand, copied here of course, of the Secretary of Lanchester Branch Labour Party, Neil Fleming (FlemingN@parliament.uk), for failing to notify me of this month's Branch meeting, and for repeating on the agenda for that meeting your insult and defamation of me.
I expect these things by 5pm on Monday 6th November, and let us make that the end of this matter.
However, since it is now beyond dispute that I am a Labour Party member in good standing, I repeat my calls for investigation, both of the party within the Party being maintained at local level in opposition to the Labour Leadership on Derwentside District Council (see the post We Name The Guilty Persons on http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com), and of the party within the Party being maintained at national level (see several other posts on http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com, among many other places rather grander than my blog).
Very many thanks.
Yours fraternally,
David
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Very much in, let me assure you (although whether I want or need to be is another matter, but I'm damned if I'm being defrauded of a few months' subscription): not one, but two more members' communications arrived yesterday, one an email, but the other an expensively produced glossy magazine sent through the post with a stamp on it.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary, it would seem to suggest exactly that, seeing as the mailing list is maintained by the same people who first made the "auto-exclusion" claim. They can't cope with anyone who answers them back, and it therefore takes astonishingly little to beat them into submission.
ReplyDeleteSince you don't seem to have grasped my original point, I am not a member of the Blameronite Party. Very few people are. But, most unfortunately, those very few people now have highly privileged, if not exclusive, access to seats in Parliament.
Absolutely everyone to whom I speak, whether face-to-face or by email all over the place, now agrees that the political parties as we have known them are not merely dying but for all practical purposes dead, and that there is going to be a realignment during the hung Parliament universally expected to result from the next General Election. There might be some dissent from this in Blameronworld, but that just proves how wildly out of touch with reality its inhabitants are.
They don't, but their real dislike is now for the political parties themselves. They are preparing (quite consciously, I think) to vote (including, where appropriate, not vote) for a hung Parliament specifically in order to kill off the parties that they now so virulently despise.
ReplyDeleteThey are perfectly capable of doing this: after all, they wanted a reduced Labour majority last time, so they successfully brought about exactly that at the ballot box. Britain has the most sophisticated electorate in the world, even capable (as at Bromley & Chislehurst) of using a byelection to protest against the Opposition rather than to protest against the Government. Where else in the world does that happen?
Given that, do not mistake abstention for apathy: it might be the very reverse, as it was in many cases last time, and as it will be in very many cases indeed next time.
The situation in which we now find ourselves simply is not like anything that has gone before: voter turnout in free-fall, next to no party members, the parties bordering on bankruptcy, their central organisations functining as a single body (and that funded by an illegal slush fund), the outgoing Prime Minister awaiting arrest while desperate for the other party to win and beat his own successor, and so on. Nothing like this has ever happened before, certainly not simultaneously across the board as at present.
You seem to assume (as, it must be said, do a lot of people) that, in particular, the Conservative and Labour Parties will somehow always exist, just because they always will, they always will, they always will.
But they won't. We are living in their final generation, as even their most seasoned and active remaining members on the ground freely state face-to-face or in private correspondence. And even they don't seem to be weeping much, it must be said.
However, someone (other than the BNP, the Trots and the Islamists, that is) will still have to contest elections in 10 years' time.
Among other things, this is an opportunity to re-create a party conscious and worthy of its roots in the unions and the co-operatives, in Fabianism and Christian Socialism; a party which combines, and which understands the connections among, the hugely popular legacy of Keynes and Beveridge, sane social conservatism, and patriotism in all directions.
People would want this who still vote Labour only because they feel that they owe it to the fallen of two World Wars to turn out and vote for "someone". People would want this who long even only to be part of the first category, but who simply cannot bring themselves to vote for what Labour has become. And people would even want this, once confronted with it, to whom, for whatever tribal reasons, it would simply never occur to vote for the Labour Party as such.
So, why wouldn't YOU want this?