Catch Up : Smash the Nazi BNP
Though my Royton mission failed I did make it to Bury North and spent two hours with a variety of independent left comrades leafleting a large proportion of Totterington Ward. The home turf of the BNP candidate.
If the willingness and spirit of the volunteers were combined with the organisation Labour have developed over the last 100 years more could have been done - as it is in say Oldham or Manchester - but as it is we manage to instil some system and urgency and cover several estates and roadside ribbons.
It is hard to imagine people in these neat ex-Council and new-build semis voting for the fascist filth.
It is also hard to work out quite why these independent left volunteers will support a Scargill candidate here and risk getting a Tory. I would not hesitate to work to get David Chaytor re-elected in this seat. He is a thoughtful and principled rebel. Including on the war and about 40 other recent divisions.
In Bury South they will take the same risk backing a one-issue independent. Though Ivan Lewis has not been rebellious my sense is that he will be loyal to a programme to the left of him as well as this programme to the right of him.
If the willingness and spirit of the volunteers were combined with the organisation Labour have developed over the last 100 years more could have been done - as it is in say Oldham or Manchester - but as it is we manage to instil some system and urgency and cover several estates and roadside ribbons.
It is hard to imagine people in these neat ex-Council and new-build semis voting for the fascist filth.
It is also hard to work out quite why these independent left volunteers will support a Scargill candidate here and risk getting a Tory. I would not hesitate to work to get David Chaytor re-elected in this seat. He is a thoughtful and principled rebel. Including on the war and about 40 other recent divisions.
In Bury South they will take the same risk backing a one-issue independent. Though Ivan Lewis has not been rebellious my sense is that he will be loyal to a programme to the left of him as well as this programme to the right of him.
posted by Chris Paul at 5:24 PM
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