Who do those plebs think that they are, seeking to influence the selection of parliamentary candidates?
Their betters in the Blairite media and on the Labour Party's deeply disloyal-to-Ed Blairite staff do not care that the mere Police have exonerated the revolting peasants. Those uppities must still be made to pay for their insolence.
Their betters in the Blairite media and on the Labour Party's deeply disloyal-to-Ed Blairite staff do not care that the mere Police have exonerated the revolting peasants. Those uppities must still be made to pay for their insolence.
I am proud to be a member of Unite. As I am proud to be a member of Progress, which ought also to affiliate to the Labour Party, along with Movement for Change, Compass, and the Labour Representation Committee.
Once upon a time, I would have been a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
But my own Constituency Labour Party spitefully refused to nominate me, being at the time in thrall to its then MP, the witless and charmless daughter of a man who had served for all of one term as the MP for the constituency's principal centre of population, and never at all for several wards.
Everything else was in place. But she put the kibosh on it. It was not to be her last strangling in the cradle of any hope that I might ever advance within and through the party.
She found me that terrifying, and her witless and charmless protégé, whom she had absurdly wanted as her successor, still does. See above as to the Labour Party's deeply disloyal-to-Ed Blairite staff.
Ho, hum. I feel no disloyalty to the party merely because I am kept out of one category of its membership by people who wanted a Cameron victory in 2010, who want a Cameron victory in 2015, and who wanted a Labour Leader whose only criticism of this Government would have been that it was not cutting enough at home while waging war against all and sundry abroad.
The NEC is meeting as I write, to adopt the recommendations of the Collins Report.
But why not allow MPs to whittle down the number of Leadership Candidates to two by means of a ballot, with the top two going out to a One Member, One Vote ballot off all individual members, affiliated members and registered supporters in the country?
Why not allow CLPs to whittle down the number of would-be Parliamentary Candidates to two by means of a ballot, with the top two going out to a One Member,
One Vote ballot off all individual members, affiliated members and
registered supporters in the constituency?
Why not make registration as a supporter free of charge, forfeitable only upon being or supporting a non-Labour candidate for the House of Commons in Great Britain, including by being a member of a party other than Labour or the Co-op that contested elections to the House of Commons in Great Britain?
And why not have registered supporters elect representatives with the right to speak, but not to vote, at Conference and at NEC meetings, very much like Group Observers in local government?
In each region, each supporter would vote for one candidate, and the top two for the NEC, the top 10 for Conference, would be elected.
That would certainly go some way to balancing the extraordinary South-Eastern domination of this year's list of candidates for the NEC.
And why not have registered supporters elect representatives with the right to speak, but not to vote, at Conference and at NEC meetings, very much like Group Observers in local government?
In each region, each supporter would vote for one candidate, and the top two for the NEC, the top 10 for Conference, would be elected.
That would certainly go some way to balancing the extraordinary South-Eastern domination of this year's list of candidates for the NEC.
Who do these plebs think they are, forging people's signatures on application forms and putting forward thirty candidates without their knowledge?
ReplyDeleteYou support these things, you demonstrate your contempt for democracy.
Call the Police.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's right. Someone did.
It's in Labour's own report into the matter, which Miliband (mysteriously, wonder why?) still refuses to release to the public.
ReplyDeleteForged signatures, candidates entered without even knowing it. It's all come out today.
Don't worry, I'm not at all surprised you support it-the Left have always been contemptuous of democracy.
After all, didn't they support trades unions in their efforts to thwart a democratically elected Govermment in the 80's?
That's the Left and democracy for you.
All investigated by the Police. They found nothing. Not a thing.
ReplyDeleteWrong. The report was only leaked this week- it had never been published.
ReplyDeleteThe facts I describe were found by Labour's own investigation.
The Police investigated all of this months ago, and found nothing.
ReplyDeleteThis is from Labour's internal investigation-which Miliband still refuses to publish.
ReplyDeleteBecause it incriminates the unions.
Which it would. But you could not possibly know that, and I am not going to explain it to you.
ReplyDeleteThe Police have been over all of this. It is, so to speak, balls.
Your just wrong on this, as you well know.
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian published the full 20- page Labour report four days ago.
It found clear proof that Unitr attempted to manipulate candidate selection, signed people up without their knowledge and "strong evidence" signatures were forged.
Now, if you know something the Labour Party doesn't, please suggest your additions to the report.
Instead of writing silly blog posts ignoring the issue.
I am not talking about some internal party report complied by an anti-Unite faction on the party's staff and leaked to a tame hack of the same mind.
ReplyDeleteI am talking about a Police investigation, which there has been, and which has dismissed all of this out of hand as entirely without foundation.