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Originally Posted by Gayle
Thanks for that vote of confidence Tealeaf but I know full well that if I did say that I was going for it, you'd be the first to start saying how ill qualified I was for it. 
Just for the record, I'm not eligible for being a candidate because I'm no longer a member of the Labour party. |
What makes you assume that I will question your qualifications for this role? I may well have criticised some of your schemes and ideas but I have also agreed with others and it is more than a shame (for the town) that they have not born as much fruit as could be expected.
In any case, is membership of the Labour party still a prerequisite to holding office? Brown has stuck quite a few characters in the House of Lords who had no previous form when it came to party politics, so I don't see why - if the labour party is serious about winning the next election - that that policy can continue, especially given the fact that most current MP's have been exposed as at best, morally bankrupt and at worse, crooks. Anyway, the chances are that Brown will have gone by the next election and that labour prospects will look nowhere as grim as they do today, so with your local background, you may have a good chance.