But much of
what some of the MPs seem to be complaining about doesn’t look much different
from the normal cajoling, threats and blackmail which are the stock-in-trade of
the Whips’ Offices; and it looks as though some of the more delicate souls
amongst them are really complaining more about the source of the responses than
about their content. How dare ordinary
party members – let alone the voting public – threaten not to vote for MPs just
because they disagree with them?
But why on earth
shouldn’t members of any party, who have selected a candidate for election and
then canvassed and leafletted on his or her behalf, have an absolute right to withdraw
their support and demand an opportunity to select a candidate more in tune with
their own views? The concept of deselection
or reselection of MPs is being treated as though it is utterly outrageous, and
the MPs concerned sound as though they believe that they should have a job for
life, regardless of what they do or say.
Why? What gives them that
right? The very fact that they think
they should have such a right underlines how far the Labour Party has drifted from being the
property of its members.
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3 comments:
Spot on, as usual. A couple of weeks ago Nick Robinson told listeners to the Today Programme in outraged tones that some poor Labour MPs had been called "red Tories" by critics on social media. How appalling!
Let's not forget that Labour also use the threat of de selection as a weapon to force their politicians to follow orders as we have seen in Cardiff with the councillors who threatened to vote against the budget.
It's also worth pointing out that most Labour MPs voted to bomb Iraq in September 2014 yet we didn't have the same coverage or outrage back then.
As for them being called Red Tories, do they object at the EBC using the term Tory to describe the Conservatives?
Those Labour M. P`s that voted to bomb, can take heart that their souls will be saved as Mr Welby stated in the House of Lords that war met the Church of England`s “Just War” criteria.
As for changing politicians President Regan stated “that politician like nappies need to be changed regularly and usually for the same reason”
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