Ealing Tory defections & Gurcharan Singh
The defection of five former Ealing Labour councillors to the Tories is nothing to do with politics but more akin to sour grapes and Southall internal politics on behalf of Gurcharan Singh who failed to be shortlisted as the Labour candidate for the Ealing Southall by-election. If him and his colleagues have suddenly undergone an overnight conversion to the cause of David Cameron why did he not defect sooner? The decision of the Labour party last week not to shortlist Gurcharan Singh was quite correct and justified given his defection, his commitment to Labour was indeed very shallow and the party is better off without them if they behave in this manner.
It will also be interesting to see whether any of the five attain in the next few weeks a position of influence in the Conservative administration that runs Ealing Council which carries a special responsibility allowance.
The Tories maybe crowing about the defections today but come July 19th I remain confident they'll not be celebrating success in Ealing Southall and that Vivendra Sharma will be elected.
It will also be interesting to see whether any of the five attain in the next few weeks a position of influence in the Conservative administration that runs Ealing Council which carries a special responsibility allowance.
The Tories maybe crowing about the defections today but come July 19th I remain confident they'll not be celebrating success in Ealing Southall and that Vivendra Sharma will be elected.
posted by Martin Whelton at 12:57 pm
5 Comments:
His committment was shallow? The man spent 30 years as a Labour party member?!!? FACT!!
Ah but Martin and his ilk (the slavish followers of the party line) will always turn on any party member who shows independent thought. Remember the abuse thrown at Ken Livingstone when he was standing as an independent for London mayor? And then the about turn when welcomed back into the party? Only welcomed back because it was realised that he would win again. Remeber the old son "You can't get me 'cos I'm part of the Union"? Membership of the party is what gives some fragile people status.
If someone can spend 30 years in a Party and then quit when he doesn't get his own way, it means either (a) he was only in the Party as a careerist or (b) that there's no real difference between the two Parties and so swapping means nothing. Neither's great.
Absolute rubbish! If someone swaps after 30 years it indicates a continual disservice to that individual in my mind... things like this are a long time coming.
Not when you write publicly as Gurcgaran Singh did on his blog just before he defected praising Tony Blair and Gordon Brown(which seemed to have got deleted when he defected), this was an opportunistic defection and I bet all five regret the error they've now made given the poor Tory showing in Southall.
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