Saturday 28 July 2012

Operor Non Exsisto Ignavus

The town's MP, take note. And his admirers, likewise.

A shortlist confined to people paid minimum wage might perfectly easily consist of interns or those paid only the statutory minimum in order to call them something else. Nowhere near enough on which to live at all in central London (if anywhere), still less to acquire the contacts necessary in order to have oneself thus shortlisted.

We do not need this. We need the final ballot for parliamentary candidate to be of the whole constituency electorate. That would favour the sort of people who in considerable numbers became Labour MPs for the first time in 2010, because the boys "on minimum wage" were too important ever to have to be in Opposition.

Ho, hum. With their elders and betters rightly in no mood to budge, they will never now make it into Parliament. But with MacShane still without the whip, an opening might exist for one of them at Rotherham if the eyes there were off the ball. Operor non exsisto ignavus.

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