Hoey is a disgrace.

I well remember how Labour MP Dan Norris was assaulted and his assistant punched by pro hunting thugs after doing a TV interview not far from where I live.

 A day or two later the odious Hoey stood on a platform near the same village where this attack took place and applauded as speakers from her so called Countryside Alliance (including the Vice Chair Tory Peer Lord Mancroft) called members of her own party 'bigots' and called for the downfall of the government. Not once did she condemn the attack on Dan.

At the 2005 election her hunt thug friends were busy trying to disrupt the democratic process by harassment of anti hunt Labour MPs and indeed of their constituents. At one point arc lights were shone in the faces of elderly people leaving a meeting Dan Norris had organised and stones were thrown by the pro hunt rabble. I witnessed dozens of other incidents like this.

The whole aim of the CA is to remove the Labour government from power so the Hunting Act is overturned.

I would say also that Tory Hoey is a security risk, given the information Labour MPs have access to on strategy, inner workings of party and so on. That she chairs an organistion that has direct links to a campaign to get pro hunt Tories into power should be of great concern.

We should lance the nasty boil of Hoey once and for all, the majority of decent minded people will thank us for it.

She is the enemy within.

Kate Hoey is very popular with voters in her constituency, and easily won the trigger ballot.

Lee Jasper may have done great things advising Ken Livingstone on racial matters, but he has not been active in the constituency, and his political genius is not of such a level that many members would wish to rescue him from oblivion. Indeed, I believe that even those who would like to see a Black Member of Parliament representing Vauxhall would jib at the thought of choosing that one.

Also, the results of the recent local government elections would suggest that this is no time to unseat a candidate with a massive personal following, which might not transfer to a pro-war, no hunting, Love-the-Rich-and-Powerful New Labourite.