Just a few days (Thursday lunchtime) to go before the close of nominations for the Labour Party leadership coronation election.
Those of you have visited the Socialist Republic of Hebden Bridge Trades Club, will be familiar with left-winger John McDonnell when he visited the Stubbing Wharfe pub a couple of months ago (When I say familiar IÂ mean you may have heard of him).
Classic quotes of that night’s “public” meeting include:
“John Rhodes, Chair of the Hebden Bridge Labour Party … gave a very effective speech (later described by Mike Wood MP as “brilliant”) where he pointed how, after 10 years of a Labour Government, poverty and inequality had increased greatly.”
“Mike Wood said, “I want my party back – if there is still a party left,” pointing out that membership had halved and the party was nearly bankrupt, being £20-£30 million in the red. He even wondered if the destruction of the Labour Party was “by design” ”
(source www.hebdenbridge.co.uk)
He needs another 18 nominations from a party which has increased poverty and inequality and is nearly bankrupt.
Accompanying whispers of splits in the local Hebden Bridge Labour Party, Labour’s Calder Valley MP, Chris McCafferty will not be one of the MPs back John McSomeone.
