What is Tribune coming to, giving house room to David Miliband? It cannot be out of loyalty to the memory of his father. Tribune is not The Morning Star, any more than The Red Flag (not sung at the funeral either of Donald Dewar or of Robin Cook) is The Internationale (sung at both of those funerals).
Anyway, his conversion to primaries would be rather more credible if it were not for the fact that, as told to me by a constituent of his and erstwhile member of his Constituency Labour Party, even the local council candidates in South Shields are not chosen locally, but by Milly’s London office.
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What's wrong with the Internationale? Better tune, no?
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Spike Milligan's comment to Harry Seacombe: "I hope you die before me, I don't want you singing at my funeral!"
Milly has in the past raised some interesting policies - like funding for ward-level spending to be controlled by community councils.
But open primaries seem like a good way of destroying Labour as a party of, well, labour. Not that Milly and company haven't been doing a good job of that already, of course.... Credit where it's due - they've well and truly smashed Labour.
So we need to start again.
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