Caroline Kisko's resignation as Membership Secretary of the Kennel Club is to be welcomed. But she had used only the same expression as Anne Marie Morris MP. When was a member of either House of the United States Congress last recorded using the n-word? Yet here we are.
The test of the sincerity and credibility of avowed anti-racists in the House of Commons, whether they prefer to talk about the Windrush Generation or about anti-Semitism, will be whether or not they table and pass a motion to expel Ms Morris from that House at the start of the next session's business.
The ostentatiously "anti-racist" MP for North West Durham has not done so, even though Ms Morris's words would now have been career-ending in South Africa or in the American South. Laura Pidcock is noting but a bag of wind, on this as so many other issues. It turns out that she did in fact address the TUC last week. But even I never noticed, so nobody else will have had a clue.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration. After nearly 30 years of suggestion, speculation, and even a sort of preparation, I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration. After nearly 30 years of suggestion, speculation, and even a sort of preparation, I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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