How many votes do you have in the deputy leadership election?
There seems to be a bit of confusion in the blogosphere about why members of the Labour party can have more than one vote for Deputy Leader. Specifically, some Tories have failed to understand that our party is a membership organisation consisting of constituency Labour parties, affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and the Co-operative party, with whom we have an electoral agreement, and that all those sections get to ballot their members.
So, here’s a meme for the Labour blogosphere: how many votes do you get? (Some help here and here, if you need it.)
Me? Oxford East CLP, tick. Unite the Union, TGWU section, tick. Labour campaign for lesbian and gay rights, tick. All first prefs for Mr Cruddas.
antonia - why, why, why are you voting for mr cruddas? he is going to bring the party back 10 years
” he is going to bring the party back 10 years…”
June 1997 feels quite appealing from where I’m sitting.
Dermot: “antonia - why, why, why are you voting for mr cruddas? he is going to bring the party back 10 years”
Yay! Back to 1997! A popular party leading in the opinion polls with an exciting but realistic programme for change. The idea that Cruddas’ ideas for change are dangerous considering the poor state of affairs we have right now is just plain barmy.
Total madness…