Or Have You Ever Been?

David Aaronovitch has some front, I have to give him that. Half an hour of Radio Four on what everyone already knew about Soviet infiltration of post-War America.

But not a word on the fact that he has never been a member of any party except the Communist Party, to which he belonged from childhood until its collapse in the early 1990s, extremely soon before the creation of New Labour by him and other Communist Party hands (John Reid, Peter Mandelson), International Marxist Group stalwarts (Alistair Darling, Bob Ainsworth, plus Geoff Gallop, Tony Blair's mentor at Oxford), Trotskyists generally (Stephen Byers, Alan Milburn), IRA fundraisers (Tony McNulty), legal advisers to the Paedophile Information Exchange and Paedophile Action for Liberation (Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt), and others who had likewise followed academic Marxism from economic to social, cultural and constitutional means to entirely unchanged ends: the destruction of the family, of private property, and therefore of the State. No wonder that at the funerals of Donald Dewar and Robin Cook, they sang, not The Red Flag, but The Internationale.

One of Ralph Miliband's sons has been endorsed by Frank Field, and by John Smith's widow. But the other has not. Vote for any other candidate. Yes, including Diane Abbott, who is not remotely as many people imagine her to be. But do not, under any circumstances, give even your last preference vote to David Miliband. What with AV on top of everything else, the Labour Party is finished anyway. Parties are only ever means, not ends. However, Labour at least deserves to be in a position to give way gracefully to something better.