Thursday, May 17, 2007
Pissup, Brewery...
I suppose this is entirely predictable, really, and so Brown'll get his coronation full-blown, rather than ill-disguised. How hard though, could it have been to find 45 Labour MPs prepared to nominate at least one or the other of Meacher and McDonnell, and thus at least give the membership a chance to voice its dissatisfaction with the current direction of the Party? You'd have thought that 10 years of government would have created enough people with no real hope of advance off of the backbenches. Either way, I've been saying for a while now that I was going to vote for McDonnell - Meacher seemed to have gone off the reservation a bit after getting sacked - and then leave the Party, so I suppose I ought to just leave now.
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Mama's rejoining, you're doing it all wrong
(Not cos she suddenly agrees with them again, obv.)
I said 'I suppose ought', not 'I will'.
Wouldn't quitting your membership send a much clearer message than voting for whoever Gordon would've beaten anyway. I think the fact they need to run a one-horse leadership 'contest' before he officially takes over is the worst thing about the whole mess...
No, I don't think so: I think that there's an awful lot of membership churn, with people forgetting to send in their renewals, dying, having moved and so getting their renewals, that kind of thing. Voting for McDonnell would have been much better.
I was assuming quitting meant doing something active, thereby being noticeably different from merely letting your membership lapse.
What do you dislike about Brown anyway? My dad's hoping (though maybe not expecting) he'll be better than Blair...
Well, fiscal policy been Brown's for ten years, and I am not convinced that the long-term interests of the least well-off group have been maximised...
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