The Nick of Time

Today is the third anniversary of the suspension of Nick Brown from the Labour Party. If you believed the rumours, then you would have to believe that the last six Labour Leaders, including two Prime Ministers and including the present Leader, had engaged such a person as Chief Whip. No, nor do I. Justice for Brown is long overdue.

If there had been anything in the allegation against Brown, then it would have been a parliamentary and a Police matter. It has never been either, and Brown pulled the plug on the Labour Party's farcical proceedings by leaving the party. He then stood down at the General Election. He still holds the former MP's parliamentary pass, and he has not been arrested. A Labour MP for 41 years, and Chief Whip three times, Brown was as much of a Labour Party stalwart as there could possibly have been. If that was how it treated its own, then how would it treat the rest of us? We now know the answer to that.