We Name The Guilty Persons

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The Labour Party and its Senior Constitutional Officer (Eric Wilson -- Eric_Wilson@labour.org.uk) have absolutely refused to investigate the separate political party flagrantly being maintained within the Labour Party in opposition to the Labour Leadership on Derwentside District Council, a local authority nationally recognised as highly effective, with several Beacon Status awards and so forth. Therefore, I (Secretary of Derwentside District Labour Party from 2003 to 2006) hereby use this means, together with http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/, to demand publicly that there be an investigation, whether by the Labour Party or by anyone else, into the activities of each and all of the following:

Hilary Armstrong, MP for Durham North-West;

Neil Fleming, Hilary Armstrong's researcher and preferred successor;

Kevan Jones, MP for Durham North;

Bob Young, County Councillor and open-casting millionaire;

David Hodgson, Bob Young's predecessor, but also a former District Councillor who was found in the mid-1990s to have fiddled his expenses in order to fund his notorious drinking, yet who has now been given overall control of the selection of Labour candidates in next year's elections to that very same Council;

Atherley Hodgson, David Hodgson's brother and a District Councillor, who this year stood unsuccessfully for Leader of the Labour Group, and then abstained at the Full Council AGM rather than vote to re-elect Alex Watson, yet who somehow manages to retain the Labour Whip;

Cath Clarke, who also abstained rather than vote for Alex Watson as Leader of the Council, yet who also somehow manages to retain the Labour Whip;

Peter Hughes, employed to run services to District Councillors, but also a member of the Constituency and District Labour Parties, close to Bob Young, and from whose email address emails to Councillors are returned with remarkable frequency;

All Derwentside District Councillors in Kevan Jones's constituency, unless exempted by Alex Watson (a.watson@derwentside.gov.uk); and

The North Durham and North-West Durham Constituency Labour Parties, as such, which should therefore be suspended.