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It is always good when a politician makes good and in ASDA this morning, our MP Greg was presented with a bunch of flowers from a very nice young lady, I offered to take a picture, but she was a bit shy, so waited until she sat down.
I waited to see Greg, but as legs started to weaken due to simvastatin doping, managed to find a chair to sit on.
I seem to be going through a political crisis at the moment, and as a refugee from the wicked labour party, thought the Liberal Democrats might be better. The issue I have raised with Greg is that at a meeting in november, it proved impossible for me or any other member of the Leeds North West Lib Dems, to be elected to the management committee.
The problem is that our MP proposed or seconded all the officials, to the exclusion of the rest of our 80 plus members in weetwood ward. He is going to discuss the issue with the chairman he elected, so I look forward to some democracy.
I am one of only two men who have been shortlisted for the MP job by labour members since 1994!
In 1994 there were two left wing opposing factions in LNW Labour, they nominated Harold Best and Cllr Eileen Moxon. Stuck with two candidates, it seemed likely that if a third did not arise, the big party could parachute someone in.
I attempted to recruit a few people through my staff association, the TSSA, notably Barbara Boyce. I ended up getting the nomination as a New Labour person.
Harold Best won in 1997, and he was either reselected, or replaced by an all women shortlist, that resulted in their present candidate Judith Blake, as far as I know.
I had a go at getting on the national labour panel, but on the selection day a woman arrived late, so I was denied my pre interview toilet break. The resultant incontinence sparked a major dispute that ended in an Employment Tribunal against Labour regarding disability discrimination.
The party argued that it was fair to discriminate against disabled people in political selection process, and it was a landmark decision in favour of getting fewer disabled people into politics!
The Liberal Democrats have a disabled person section, but to join it you have to pay the party more, not less, and this is a bit silly, when labour are cutting support for disabled people?
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