Although we have yet to see the details, Yvette Cooper may indeed have ordered a statutory inquiry into Orgreave. If she had, then I would at least want to like her better than the rest of them, and I would be very suspicious that anyone who replaced her in the forthcoming reshuffle intended to betray the miners. As I typed that, I had a vision of Stephen Kinnock. And who else does Cooper have against the people who shouted at hotels? Palestine Action?
But after I had been due to be tagged, an assurance that I had twice been given in writing, this guilty-pleading convict of non-violent, non-sexual, non-domestic, non-terrorist, and non-drugs-related offences watched that close ally of the former Labour Leadership of and then on Durham County Council tag wifebeaters, drug-dealers, and ringleaders of last year’s race riots. The Leadership of what little Labour Group remains on that authority has passed to the old NUM Left from the Strike; to the last of the five Councillors who were suspended from the Labour Party in 2008. But the mere electoral will of the people is irrelevant to these matters.
Nevertheless, let Cooper feel it when an acquitted Palestine Action defendant, who had learned the lesson of Ricky Jones and Lucy Connolly by pleading not guilty, contested what she had already turned from her safe into her marginal seat. Will Reform UK, which is predicted to win it, field Connolly as its candidate? If not, why not? The law on local elections is tighter in this as in many other ways, but I had been sentenced to 12 months in 2021, and although I had to withdraw due to ill health, my nomination to contest the 2024 General Election was accepted without difficulty.
Blairite royalty are coming out against the ECHR, what do you reckon Cooper really thinks?
ReplyDeleteShe is really Brownite royalty. But watch out for Ed Balls. He may well drop a hint, as he quite often does.
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