I am told that an Emergency Motion to expel Hilary Armstrong from the Labour Party was passed at last night’s Annual General Meeting of North West Durham Constituency Labour Party (yards from my front door, as it goes, and in a club of which I am a longstanding member). I feel like John the Baptist, or like Moses on the mountaintop. Ho, hum.
But I am not sure on what grounds, exactly, it was resolved to seek to expel Armstrong, since she and Laura Pidcock are at one on everything that matters. Pidcock now favours a second EU referendum and a campaign to Remain. She accepts the unsubstantiated existence of widespread anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, she accepts the IHRA Definition, she accepts the authority of the “Equality” and Human Rights Commission to proceed as if that Definition were the law of the land, and she does not support the reinstatement of Chris Williamson.
By the way, what does the EHRC propose to do? Levy a fine? And when that were not paid, then what? The EHRC is made up of profiteers from the Windrush and blacklisting scandals. Such people are everything that was and is wrong with Blairism, with the metropolitan liberal elite. Just ignore them. They would really hate that.
Anyway, to return to Pidcock, she has never expressed any acceptance of Modern Monetary Theory, or any support for the Universal Basic Income. She does not oppose the extradition of Julian Assange. She is in favour of gender self-identification. One could go one. Between her and Armstrong, Freud’s narcissism of small differences has become the narcissism of no difference at all.
All in all, then, it is no surprise that Armstrong’s name, face, and words of endorsement, appeared on Pidcock’s election literature in 2017. Yes, the name, face, and words of endorsement of the Government Chief Whip at the time of the Iraq War, of the sometime MP for this seat whose lack of support began the process that may now lead to the loss of any hospital provision in Consett, of the sometime MP for this seat who had been forced to stand down for having fiddled her expenses, and of the sometime MP for this seat who had banned me from being a Labour District Council candidate in her constituency because I was mixed-race.
Few things can be said for certain in politics, or indeed in life. But one of those things is that the name, face, and words of endorsement of Hilary Armstrong will never appear on any election literature of mine. Do not take my word for that. Ask her. She would tell you. In no uncertain terms.
I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
By the way, what does the EHRC propose to do? Levy a fine? And when that were not paid, then what? The EHRC is made up of profiteers from the Windrush and blacklisting scandals. Such people are everything that was and is wrong with Blairism, with the metropolitan liberal elite. Just ignore them. They would really hate that.
Anyway, to return to Pidcock, she has never expressed any acceptance of Modern Monetary Theory, or any support for the Universal Basic Income. She does not oppose the extradition of Julian Assange. She is in favour of gender self-identification. One could go one. Between her and Armstrong, Freud’s narcissism of small differences has become the narcissism of no difference at all.
All in all, then, it is no surprise that Armstrong’s name, face, and words of endorsement, appeared on Pidcock’s election literature in 2017. Yes, the name, face, and words of endorsement of the Government Chief Whip at the time of the Iraq War, of the sometime MP for this seat whose lack of support began the process that may now lead to the loss of any hospital provision in Consett, of the sometime MP for this seat who had been forced to stand down for having fiddled her expenses, and of the sometime MP for this seat who had banned me from being a Labour District Council candidate in her constituency because I was mixed-race.
Few things can be said for certain in politics, or indeed in life. But one of those things is that the name, face, and words of endorsement of Hilary Armstrong will never appear on any election literature of mine. Do not take my word for that. Ask her. She would tell you. In no uncertain terms.
I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Pidcock is as much use as a glass hammer ...
ReplyDeleteI would say "So let's smash her", but that would be bad. Let's replace her. Do please get in touch. We can do this.
DeleteArmstrong wanted show trails to expel Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell over Iraq. How the mighty are fallen. All this and Neil Fleming is going to be on your staff when you're an MP, unless he's turned down the offer. Who else, Ben Sellers? This is all the most fun in local politics here in, like, ever. Keep it up, Mr. L. See you next week.
ReplyDeleteNeil is aware of it, and has not turned it down. Ben? Well, we'll see. I'd have to dock his wages until he had paid back the Teaching Assistants.
DeleteYou bastard, you made me spit my beer out by posting this comment on Facebook: "My next little book is out soon. It has one paragraph that I like to think was written especially for Laura Pidcock, although it could have been written for Hilary Armstrong as well. In response to it, I look forward to a little collection of essays by each of them, with one essay apiece on each of that paragraph's 11 subjects, Antonio Gramsci, Max Shachtman, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche. I especially look forward to reviewing those books." You are a bad man and you have been for at least 30 years that I know of.
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