Sir,
If Mr Harper’s question as to why Labour Party members standing for election in the upcoming council ballot should “disguise” their allegiance is genuinely in search of an answer, allow me: They are ashamed. And they have much to be ashamed of.
March 20, 2003, of course, marks the precise day that the life support machine -
Letter: Labour members “ashamed” to declare party allegiance in council elections
April 2017
From its very inception on July 21, 1994, the (New) Labour Party began the process
of divesting itself of the ideals and principles which informed its difficult and
hard-
Lest we forget, it may have been Thatcher who sold off the family silver when she privatised the utilities, but it was Brown who sold the gold; introduced the insanity of PFI, and who, most disgracefully, allowed the deregulated bankers to behave like the deranged oligarchs they always were.
At a local level, of course, Labour Party members could pretend all was well. Young
people were, in numbers never seen before, “off to Uni,” working people on miserable
wages had them topped-
But, like summer’s lease, it couldn’t last. The young students graduated with their
degree and a mortgage worth of debt. The value of tax-
So what now? Poverty action groups (talking shops), food banks (cf.16th century Europe),
and charities? If that’s the response of the Labour Party -
Mr Harper, therefore, may have a point. But it just as surely highlights why some of us, really are independent!
Derek McPherson
Fernlea Guesthouse
Matheson Rd
Stornoway