Tuesday 11 November 2008

Putting The Strong Into Armstrong

Hilary Armstrong's seasonal newsletter has popped through the door. It is well within the rules of non-partisanship, and parts of it (such as on food co-operatives) are really very good.

But no one who was planning to retire within 18 months would have bothered to put all this together. The rumours (and more than rumours) are quite clearly true: Hilary is so unimpressed with the potential successors being lined up by the New Labour machine in general, and by the all-women shortlist system in particular, that she is not going to retire after all.

Are there any other MPs in that same position? And do they realise that they will die eventually, even if while still keeping an unsuitable person out of Parliament until that moment?

2 comments:

  1. If there hadn't been an all-women shortlist, you would have been on for this seat.

    Your views may look odd from fashionable London, but they are exactly those of the right-wing Old Labour faction that runs Derwentside Council (your mates) and their Tory "Independent" allies against their own left wing (your mates' mates).

    You are local. You are well-dressed and well-spoken. You would have walked it. The bastards are probably going to vote for you anyway.

    When are you going to admit that this is what it is really all about?

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  2. "You are well-dressed and well-spoken."

    You are too kind.

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