Apparently the former Labour MP for Northampton South, Tony Clarke, discovered the Labour Party was firing him as a councillor "on the morning of the nominations by text message without any explanation what so ever".
This has caused a storm on LabourHome with accusations of censorship flying around, as well as people saying that Northampton is "an absolute hell hole" full of people or are either "inbred or dinosaurs". I can't comment on the latter, but the former is unfair because it's not as bad as Newham.
For more details check out Mike Rouse's blog.
Update: Post has been amended due to my poor reading comprehension of the original tale.
4 comments:
He's not talking about his selection for the constituency but for Northampton Borough Council.
I think you're talking about a council candidacy rather than an incumbent MP
How was Howard Flight informed of his deselection?
All the best
Alex Hilton
Amended. Typed it up at the very last minute before I left work and clearly didn't read it all properly.
Do a google search and see how many Labour aides have been fired from the Welsh Assembly over blogs. Now that's censorship.
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