3 April (Part 2) - Spinning in his grave
The Labour Constituency Office for Erith and Thamesmead is in Northumberland Heath
in a house given to the party by Norman Dodds who was a local MP for 20 years until he
died at the young age of 61. But then the premises were taken over by a new
breed of MP with no knowledge of the building’s history and who thought her name
should take precedence over his - and
spent a lot of money on the transformation.
(It was to be fair in need of some some renovation.)
Now it is up for sale.
My most active - now former - Councillor Dave Putson is not happy about it and has
written an interesting essay on the subject.
(Active in terms of resident engagement.)
He asserts that it is Keir Starmer’s doing…
Dave
Putson said with Starmer’s Labour it is only about the money and equates him
with Margaret Thatcher. Having ejected so many activists he has to scrabble
around looking for corporate donors and hoping that 13 million voters will not
notice that the Labour Party is no longer about Fairness, Equality, Human Rights and Internationalism.
Well worth a read. My guess is that Starmer will be elected and not last five
minutes. The population is angry now and won’t be at all happy when Starmer is
found to be worse than Sunak. Then the left wing will come and get him. And then what will we do?
Note1: I must be in Dave’s bad books. he didnְ’t tip me off about his web page.
Note2: Within an hour or two of publishing this Dave Putson had emailed to say
how busy he had been - with examples - and said I am not in his bad books after all.