File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9905, message 173


From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:41:20 +0000
Subject: Re: scot's elections



> anto writes:
> >Are you listening to Glenys Kinnock on R5? She's describing 
> >unprecedented strife in the Welsh Labour Party between socialists and 
> >Bleughists and saying that the Labour supporters were deliberately, 
> >not apathetically, staying at home.
> 
> ah the schisms of the left.  just like the old days all over again.  but
> more importantly - will alun michaels get his seat?  they were saying that
> if labour did partucularly well, this would mean that their dear welsh
> leader wouldn't get in on the list selection.  bring back ron davies.
> 
> anyhows andy, did you vote in the locals?
> 
> colin
> 
> ps  apologies to all you, the vast swathe of the list who know not what i
> am talking about.
> 

No - I'm London Borough of Hounslow - Brentford and Isleworth  - and 
we're in two years time. Generally [70 or was it 71, 74, 74, 75 
referendum, 79]  I'm more of  an   abstentionist 
thoughThatcher provoked me to vote after  83 - with considerable 
reluctance after Blair and Brown took over. Our present MP is Ann 
Keen, a typical Blair Babe and useless. The old mega-rich Tory, Nirj 
Deva was much more accessible as a constituency MP. Locally I don't 
bother, except when the BNP or one of  their local sympathisers 
[usually masquerading as a residents or community association.] are 
standing.

Anyway Euro Elections in June are my next chance to do nothing. I am 
ruthlessly targeted by Labour so I'll expect those tea time phone 
calls any time now. I was trying to think of anything Labour had done 
that I liked:

I came up with the Right to Roam bit, but I can't think of anything 
else. They still haven't pushed Homosexual Bill through. Doesn't look
like Red Ken will be allowed to stand for Mayor.

Whatever happened to those other famous Reds of the 70s and 80s:

Red Ted
Red Robbo
Red Rum
Liverpool FC

Where did it all go wrong?

Andy


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