It’s more corrupt than the Afghan election. I can reveal that the Kinnocks had no less than 12 votes in the Labour leadership election – no wonder the pantswetting Baron Kinnock was salivating over Dead Head’s victory in anticipation of a juicy bone being thrown his way. Neil and Glenys had two votes each as Labour party members and affiliated trade union members plus three more votes each as members of the Fabian Society,the Socialist Education Association and the Socialist Health Association. Glenys had another vote as an MEP and Neil as a member of the C0-operative society. That’s a dozen votes!!! Perhaps Robert Mugabe could send observers to the next one.
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Ian, You forgot to tell us how many more votes Kinnocks the Next Generation were entiltled to as well….somehow I suspect more than one each.
Other members of the Kinnock family have also benefited from the Brussels gravy train. Son Stephen’s first job after Cambridge University was as a research assistant to an MEP.
His Danish wife Helle – tipped as a future prime minister of Denmark – sat as an MEP from 1999 to 2004, while the Kinnocks’ daughter Rachel was her mother’s research assistant at the European Parliament. Rachel now works for Gordon Brown in the political unit at No10, paid by the Labour Party.
At the risk of pedantry, members of Cooperative Societies don’t get a vote on the Labour leader. Nor do members of the Co-operative Party – despite being in an electoral pact since 1927 with the Labour Party… Still, I am sure you are right that the Kinnochios have all got dozens of votes by virtue of the Fabians etc. Bizarre over-enfranchisement.
Sorry but there is only one possible response to this post: “so fucking what?”
Let’s set aside the outcome. All of the candidates are careerist jerks and maybe OMOV would have just resulted in a bigger win for Big Ed.
Far more importantly, OMOV in the Labour Party does not even register on the list of demands for a better world.
You might as well demand that prefects at Eton be elected by single transferable vote.
I have to agree with Internationalist here. So fucking what?