Sam Gyimah is a failed businessman, although he keeps quiet about it, understandably enough. He is also black, and was therefore put on David Cameron's A-list alongside assorted anti-marriage and anti-monarchy campaigners from the Lib Dems, Labour Party members who only joined because they fancied Tony Blair, and so on. Couldn't Cameron have found any successful black businessmen? There are plenty of them.
Anyway, a shortlist of six, including Gyimah, was imposed on super-safe Surrey East. Everyone on it was black, or Asian, or female, or inclined to proclaim an inclination towards homosexual acts as if that had anything to do with anything. A point was certainly being made. Well, it has been taken. And shot, indeed spat, straight back. For the successful candidate's past has come to light, and now the locals want rid of him. Another South West Norfolk? Any Turnip Talib who stands there will win, and good luck to him or her. How about here, too?
And how about Stoke Central? Tristram Hunt was selected this evening. The Secretary of the Constituency Labour Party will announce tomorrow whether or not he will be standing as an Independent. Someone has to. And that someone has to win.
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So the black or asian candidate in Stoke Central, a combined vote of 13 against Tristram Hunt's 50, would have had your support? A patheticly low combined total though it is.
ReplyDeleteStill I don't suppose Hunt, a proper historian, has your peculiar idea of the Labour movement once being full of ardent monarchists.
Have you had any donations yet?
ReplyDeletePondering whether to put a paypal link on my page.
Anonymous, Hunt is as illiterate about the Labour Movement as you are.
ReplyDeleteMalcolm, well worth it.
A remark intended as damning is better if your vocabulary is right. You mean ignorant rather than illiterate. Anger management would help, or treatment for delusions of grandeur.
ReplyDeleteNo, I meant "illiterate". As, in that sense of the word, you clearly are. Look it up. If you know how.
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