Thursday, October 25, 2007

Former Labour MP deselected by text message

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:

Anonymous said...

He's not talking about his selection for the constituency but for Northampton Borough Council.

Anonymous said...

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

dizzy said...

Amended. Typed it up at the very last minute before I left work and clearly didn't read it all properly.

Anonymous said...

Do a google search and see how many Labour aides have been fired from the Welsh Assembly over blogs. Now that's censorship.