The Stranger's Bar, Indeed

For possession of a pornographic video of a one-year-old, Eric Joyce has been sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for two years, and given 150 hours of unpaid work. Precisely half of what I was given for absolutely nothing beyond being a political opponent of the right-wing Labour machine in the North East. Has he even been made to pay costs and a victim surcharge (payable to whom, exactly, in my case?), as I was? But hey, ho. At the second attempt, this did eventually make it into The Weekly Worker over my name only, but all other attempts to secure national or local publication for it have failed repeatedly. Still, here it is, and it has been passed on to George. Do read to the third paragraph:

Dear Sir,

In 2017, it took 749 votes to win a seat on Durham County Council for Chester-le-Street West Central, and 854 for the Leader of the Council to top the poll. Turnout was 1,870. George Galloway would get that just by being on the ballot paper.

The defeat of that Leader would be heard from the souks to the favelas, from the Dalit colonies to the Rohingya camps, and from Kashmir, to Crimea, to the scattered outposts of Diego Garcia. Armed with an impeccably local running mate in order to stop the target from slipping through, Galloway is just the man to do this. We would need only to get him registered to vote in County Durham, and preferably in Chester-le-Street, in time to be a candidate on 6th May 2021.

Eric Joyce once described Galloway as having stepped beyond what was “reasonable and acceptable for Labour MPs”. Any Labour electoral opponent of Galloway’s, including the present Leader of Durham County Council, has therefore been endorsed by Eric Joyce, and may look forward to being described as such. They would dance in the streets of the annexed Jordan Valley at Galloway’s election, and not least at his election against this opponent.

Yours faithfully,

David Lindsay, Lanchester, County Durham

Lee Walls, Chester-le-Street, County Durham

Nathan Allonby, Consett, County Durham

Norman Bolton, Consett, County Durham

Michael Parker, Crook, County Durham