Much horrified squealing that the Labour Party has expelled Suzanne Moore for nothing more than, oh, standing for Parliament against the Labour Party candidate, specifically against Diane Abbott. And do you know, she has been expelled by post! I mean, don't they know who she is? Shouldn't there have been, like, a tribunal or something? No, dears. That's not how it works. Even if it were, then what do you think that that tribunal would have said?
Lucky Suzanne Moore. I warmly welcome her to the club. Now she can get on with politics. To which the Labour Party, as for some reason it still calls itself, is some hideous cross between an irrelevance and a positive hindrance. Just ask David Lammy. He has little or no political ground in common with - it's her again - Diane Abbott. Yet he has nominated her for Leader. Indeed, he is the only MP to have done so. Apparently, there has to be a woman on the ballot. Any woman, regardless of her views.
You are better off out of it, Ms Moore. We all are.
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Not sure if I can swallow voting Tory and then getting hit by 40-50% CGT... makes me feel a tad cheated.
ReplyDeleteThis coalition is worse than Browns New Labour its stumping successful people who have saved and invested for the future instead of going down the pub every night getting pissed.
As you know from personal experience it is an automatic grounds for exclusion from the Party if she stands against a Labour candidate - it was after all the reason why you were excluded from the Party (I know you now like to pretend you left voluntarily).
ReplyDeleteShocking innit. All because she stood as an independent in the general election. How trifling. You'd think her working for the Mail on Sunday might have been a better reason. Was there a trial, some kind of tribunal? A chance to put her case? No. Just a letter in the post. Given she's probably closer politically to Labour than she is to the Tories, this seems a jobsworthy sort of decision. Labour needs all the friends (or sympathisers) it can get.
ReplyDeleteOh, Suzanne tells me she left the party before she stood for election. So there.
Not a bit of it, Anonymous. I am very proud of my expulsion. Best thing that ever happened to it, ands till saves me the cost of amny a pint that is bought for me on the strength of it.
ReplyDeleteIndeed she did, Wilfred. She was automatically deemed to have been expelled. All that this letter will have done is informed her of that fact, for their records rather than for hers.