Sunday 4 October 2015

Cunctator

But better late than never, say I.

Once in each decade, I stand for the National Executive Committee of the Fabian Society. Here is this year's 70-word statement.

It is very much like the last one. But now, I submit, it is entirely of the times, which have finally caught up with me:

Born in 1977. Writer and activist based in Lanchester, County Durham. Disabled. Mixed-race. Born abroad. Entirely state-educated, entirely in County Durham.

Our social democracy is both the basis and the product of our patriotism and of our commitment to the family.

In order to defend and rebuild it, we need a broad alliance across all ethnic groups, across all social classes, and across all parts of the country: One Nation.

3 comments:

  1. Many years ago, didn't Hilary Armstrong and N*il F*em*ng stop you from standing for the Labour Party's NEC?

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    1. Oh, yes. No matter how much support you had organised around the country (which, though I say so myself, was no mean feat in those far less digital days), you had and have to be nominated by your own Constituency Labour Party. And those two were having none of that where I was concerned.

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    2. 2000? 2001? Anyway it would have set you up for MP in 2005, she would have been shown the door. Same thing with the council seat she and F*em*ng stopped you being allowed to seek in must have been 2003. You would have become Deputy Leader this year. May the pair of them burn in hell.

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