Thursday 26 April 2018

The Lost Cause?

Does Ruth Smeeth even know who Marc Wadsworth is, or why he matters? If so, then she and those who otherwise ridiculously marched with her ought to have been carrying Confederate flags. They were the heirs of the Dixiecrats, and his hearing was, or was at least intended to be, his lynching. 

They were traitors to the strongly Jewish elements in the Civil Rights movement in the United States, and in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. They had come to exact revenge on the Stephen Lawrence campaign. Far more probably, however, they had no idea who Marc Wadsworth was, or why he mattered. And that does not exactly make matters any better.

The selection of Labour Parliamentary candidates is not purely a matter for Constituency Labour Parties. (Here in North West Durham, it is not at all a matter for the Constituency Labour Party, which nevertheless continues to exist out of what one can only assume to be a lack of self-respect.) It is also subject, in each case, to ratification by the National Executive Committee. Watch that space.

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