A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left. Just for the record: all the views expressed here are entirely personal and do not necessarily represent the positions of any organisations I am a member of.
Just watching Betty Boothroyd on Newsnight. A pillar of the right when she was on Labour's NEC, her storming TV performance tonight shows she should have been Prime Minister not just Speaker.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 10:58 pm
Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
4 Comments:
I notice she didn't endorse Gordon....
11:07 pm, March 14, 2007
I should add the qualification that I didn't actually agree with most of what she said - just thought the gusto of the presentation was amazing.
7:33 am, March 15, 2007
I'm relieved by yuor later comment, Luke. I'm afraid I find her irritating in the same way that I find Clare Short and many on the left irritating - people who owe their political careers to the Labour party but think that a decade or so in Parliament give them an absolute right to undermine the Government without thought of the damage they do to the party. In my view they are letting down the hundreds of ordinary members who wokr hard for them without any of the benefits of office that they have been lucky enough to have.
4:18 pm, March 15, 2007
Did you appreciate Betty's "lame duck comment", Luke? Great one.
8:03 am, March 16, 2007
Post a Comment
<< Home