Wednesday 23 March 2011

A Bastion Stormed

Durham Labour Representation Committee will hold its inaugural meeting this evening, from 7:30 to 9:30.

In Committee Room 1a of County Hall.

That's right. County Hall, Durham. Than which the Labour Right has had no more secure fortress for a hundred years.

But then, being on the Labour Right, though characteristically not liking the term, is as different as is conceivable from being a Blairite, and therefore a supporter of the cuts.

Indeed, the Facebook page for this meeting is illustrated with a picture taken on Palace Green, presumably on Big Meeting Day, of a very traditional trade union banner, probably NUM, against the backdrop of Durham Cathedral. Splendid stuff.

2 comments:

  1. We've got our party back.

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  2. Not without electoral reform, we haven't. Then we'd have our own party, which could never be anything else.

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