Loyalty Beyond

Kevan Jones MP popped up on Newsnight to defend Gordon Brown over the 10p tax fiasco. Whatever else one might say about Kevan Jones, he is certainly not without gifts. He has devoted his entire adult life to Labour and the GMB. He signed the "Blair Must Go" gizzajob letter.

And for what? Lib Dems and Tories have been preferred to him. People who have never stood for election, or even exhibited any political tendencies in the ordinary sense, have been wafted into the parliamentary process and straight into government. And poor Kevan is not so much as a PPS or an Assistant Whip.

One example among so very, very many.