Twenty thousand or so people per month use the foodbank at Camborne in Cornwall, which is in the constituency of George Eustice, the Under-Secretary of State for Natural Environment, Water and Rural Affairs. Put it all together, and his majority of 66 is thoroughly doomed, but with no point in voting Lib Dem against him these days.
Eustice is in the odd position of having moved from UKIP to the Conservatives. As the South, even the very Home Counties heartland, drowns under neoliberal and anarcho-capitalist contempt for State action, let the views of those kinds on the part of the figures who are or who aspire to become its MPs, in both Coalition parties and in the whole of UKIP, be held up to the full scrutiny that they deserve.
Labour needs strong local candidates, possibly even from outside party politics until now, although perhaps ideally not. There may be Westminster spear-carriers, think tank teaboys, and so on, who have already been selected for practice and in order to test their mettle. The National Executive Committee needs to make it crystal clear to them that, if they are serious about wanting future careers in Parliament, then this time they will take one for the team and stand aside.
Labour needs strong local candidates, possibly even from outside party politics until now, although perhaps ideally not. There may be Westminster spear-carriers, think tank teaboys, and so on, who have already been selected for practice and in order to test their mettle. The National Executive Committee needs to make it crystal clear to them that, if they are serious about wanting future careers in Parliament, then this time they will take one for the team and stand aside.
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