Oh Peter....!

Hack McNally Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 05:14:51 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Guido Fawkes publishes here Peter Hain's entire deputy leadership campaign strategy.



Not comfortable with the number of paid Labour Party staff and union officials named as being on his campaign team. Shouldn't they all be barred from helping and they are administering the election process?

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Oh Peter....! | 11 comments (11 topical)

Re: Oh Peter....! (#1)

by red tamarin on Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 05:36:35 PM GMT

Amusing to know which MPs aren't willing to go public with their support - always the ones you've got to keep an eye on!


Re: Oh Peter....! (#2)

by Andrea on Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 05:43:32 PM GMT

but some of them have actually gone public anyway (ex Jessica Morden).
Some MPs named in that document are backing other candidates (Gordon Banks has came out for Hilary Benn)


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Re: Oh Peter....! (#3)

by Andrea on Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 05:49:33 PM GMT

ok, for what it's worth, here's the list of Hain  supporters who has gone public so far (from his website):
Clive Betts MP
David Chaytor MP
Michael Clapham MP
John Cummins MP
Wayne David MP
Jim Devine MP
Maria Eagle MP*
Louise Ellman MP
Hywel Francis MP
Paul Goggins MP*
Patrick Hall MP
Eric Illsley MP
Piara Khabra MP
Martin Linton MP
Andrew Love MP
Jessica Morden MP
Dan Norris MP*
Albert Owen MP
Nick Palmer MP
Chris Ruane MP*
Mark Tami MP
Des Turner MP
Shaun Woodward MP
Phil Woolas MP*


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Re: Oh Peter....! (#11)

by Parishpumpspin on Sat Feb 03, 2007 at 09:53:13 PM GMT

If you take the talented Mr Woolas out of that list it starts to look like he won't make the ballot.


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Re: Oh Peter....! (#4)

by Simon Morley on Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 06:05:14 PM GMT

Is it coincidence there was a a deluge of negative comments on his Progress article this weekend (http://www.progressonline.org.uk/Magazine/article.asp?a=1544#comments) - the weekend when Sinn Fein signed up finally to support policing? It's almost enough to think there is something spookey going on!


Re: Oh Peter....! (#5)

by reallabour on Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 11:32:20 PM GMT

the real revelation is the number of Labour Party staff who are members of Peter Hain's campaign team. This is part of a worrying trend. Over the past few years there have been growing suspicions that employees of the Party have been playing an increasingly partisan role in the internal decision making processes. Now we appear to have proof. These are the people who should be overseeing the Deputy Leadership election not organising for one of the candidates.
How many other members of staff are members of rival campaign teams?
Presumably we can now expect some action from the General Secretary.  


Re: Oh Peter....! (#6)

by grimupnorth on Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 04:44:32 PM GMT

No "revelation" to me. Anyone who has attended Party Conference recently   knows full well  that the party apparatchiks are NOT impartial. There's been loads of jerrymandering,too, at NEC hustings.  So it's good this is in the  public domain.But not good news for Hain  who, to be honest, is stil more likely  to get my vote than hyped-up Cruddas. His work in Northern Ireland alone  does it for me.One wonders  who is  stitching him up?


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Re: Oh Peter....! (#7)

by petercoe on Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 05:22:01 PM GMT

Um, the two previous threads seem to be asserting that partiality by Labour staff is a revelation since new Labour came into existence.

Labour Head Office staff have ALWAYS been operators, trying to engineer the result they or their bosses regard as in the party's best interests - and often grossly inappropriately too.

What's new about this is that I very much doubt Hain is the leadership choice for Deputy - but that doesn't make their conduct any more legitimate or appropriate.


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Re: Oh Peter....! (#8)

by doctordunc on Thu Feb 01, 2007 at 10:41:09 PM GMT

That is an excellent point.  Nobody would be shocked for an instant to hear party workers were helping with Gordon Brown's campaign (though they should be)


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Re: Oh Peter....! (#9)

by doctordunc on Thu Feb 01, 2007 at 10:41:40 PM GMT

Should be shocked, that is!


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Re: Oh Peter....! (#10)

by HenryG on Fri Feb 02, 2007 at 03:25:17 PM GMT

I see from today's Guardian that Hain's staff have form on this kind of thing.  The Ghost of Richard Darlington lives on.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/comment/0,,2004369,00.html


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