Denis MacShane is a valiant campaigner against prostitution and against obscenity in the media. But of course the Labour Whip should have been withdrawn from him.
Not now, and not over the present issue, but years ago, and primarily because he is a signatory both to the Euston Manifesto (old Stalinists and Trotskyists from the Seventies) and to the Henry Jackson Society (old hired help of Pretoria and Santiago from the Eighties), making him a member of a party within the party, on whose behalf he publicly endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy, just as Gisela Stuart had publicly endorsed George Bush.
"We've got our party back", exclaimed the man who expelled Terry Fields and Dave Nellist because, whatever else they might have been, they were members of another, and an enemy, party. Well, with this case, and one trusts with certain others soon enough, we shall see.
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Parties within the party, you can talk, you are maintaining a party within the Labour Party in the old Derwentside area with several of the most prominent old Derwentside figues and/or Catholics in it.
ReplyDeleteHe and they would probably say that it was an AV election, so the rules are different. Lindsay has pointed out Labour's failure to withdraw the whip from Lord Ahmed, so that would his officially Labour supporters' excuse. People all over the country will be saying that unless that whip is withdrawn.
ReplyDeleteIt hasn't been, it won't be, they are not only saying it "all over the country", they are saying it right here and organising on it.
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