Laura Pidcock, we have always got on, and I am one of extremely few people in this constituency who already knew you when you were imposed as the Labour candidate.
But I'm sorry, over half the County Councillors for North West Durham are not Labour, as are nearly half the members of Lanchester Parish Council, and you now live here in Lanchester.
Unless I am very much mistaken, then your constituency office is in Consett North, which has not returned a Labour Councillor in quite some years.
This is just not the kind of place where the MP can be politically sectarian and separatist.
And frankly, you might understand that a bit better if you had a Political Advisor from within the Constituency Labour Party.
At least to balance the one, who is also an old friend of mine, whom you have appointed from within the wider Left.
His advice is doubtless invaluable on national and international matters, but he has no prior connection to this constituency, and I believe that it is correct to say that he still does not live here.
Never mind the Blairites. If the rules really were changed so that reselection would kick in unless two thirds of the CLP voted otherwise, then you would be in more danger than anyone else in the entire Parliamentary Labour Party.
I have no desire whatever to see someone from the horrific world of the municipal Labour Right in County Durham as my MP, or as anyone's MP.
But think on.
This is why we call you Speedboat, "here's what you could have won".
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas rollout of Universal Credit is happening anyway, so much for Laura Pidcock. And her political advisor is the man who put the kibosh on Mr. Lindsay's call to vote for no Labour candidates for the county council. As a result Labour kept control and the Teaching Assistants are still denied justice. Thank you, Laura Pidcock's political advisor.
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