Tuesday 7 July 2020

Reasonable and Acceptable

Laura Pidcock has been ordered to return £3,835.32 that she misspent by sending out General Election literature that she had disguised as an MP's communication with her constituents, and which she had charged to the public purse accordingly.

Here in Lanchester, we have had the same Labour Councillor for as long as I have been old enough to vote, and I am now older than the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I have known him for most of my life, and I served with him for many years as a Parish Councillor and as a school governor. Is he really going to retire in favour of this? I mean, really?

In any event, Lanchester needs two non-Labour candidates for the two seats, both on the same ticket so as to avoid any confusion, as part of a ruthless strategy to deprive Labour of overall control of Durham County Council for the first time in a century. This is no time for vanity.

Ward by ward, vote for whoever was best placed to defeat Labour. Deprive Labour of every seat, and then work with whatever came next. The most prized trophy of all is, of course, the Leader's seat. And the need to unseat this particular Leader demonstrates the fundamental unity between the Red Wall and the Black Wall.

That defeat would be heard from the souks to the favelas, from the Dalit colonies to the Rohingya camps, and from Kashmir, to Crimea, to the scattered outposts of Diego Garcia. We would make sure of that. Armed with an impeccably local running mate in order to stop the target from slipping through, some of us know just the man to do this.

Eric Joyce once described George as having stepped beyond what was "reasonable and acceptable for Labour MPs". Any Labour electoral opponent of George's, including the present Leader of Durham County Council, has therefore been endorsed by Eric Joyce, and may look forward to being described as such. They would dance in the streets of the annexed Jordan Valley at George's election, and not least at his election against this opponent. And we would show them doing it.

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