"What have I in common with James Purnell? He looks like a Poor Law guardian." So said Alice Mahon, quite seasoned enough to know that there was nothing either new or wrong about upper-middle-class people in the Labour Party. But also to know that Purnell was something else.
As confirmed by David Cameron, who publicly announced that Purnell would be remaining as his Work and Pensions Secretary, without any suggestion that he would need to leave the Labour Party in order to clear the working poor out of city centres and the entire South East while continuing his longstanding work of pushing people out of their wheelchairs and stamping on their heads. If Cameron had won an overall majority, then that would have happened.
Bring back Purnell? It is very high time indeed for the David Miliband faction to join the Conservative Party, which they might find a bit left-wing for them, but where they would be an awful lot happier than they are now. The Heir to Blair would be as delighted to have them as the Heir to Smith would be to see them go.
If they will not go of their own accord, then, as a party within the Labour Party for the promotion of an alien and hostile ideology, they should be expelled.
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And wanting to re-launch the British People's Alliance as an ILP/Fabian Society afilliate to the Labour Party is what exactly?
ReplyDeleteNeither alien nor hostile, but the very reverse.
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