Thursday, May 31, 2007

Home of Labour Party votes for Brown and Harman

West Ham CLP, where the first ever Labour MP, Kier Hardie, was elected in 1892, voted tonight to nominate Gordon Brown for Leader of the Labour Party and Harriot Harman to be the deputy. Gorden was nominated overwhelmingly and Harriot also won the deputy vote by a clear margin. Jon Cruddas was 2nd then Alan Johnson. There was a lively but good natured and comradely debate in an “all members” CLP meeting.

UPDATE: just heard that Tower Hamlets Labour Party voted to nominate (supportive) Brown as leader, and Jon Cruddas as deputy (Alan Johnson 2nd).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Clear margin For Harman? Tied until the 3rd preference votes. My observations about the vote:

The majority of woman voted for Cruddas
The majority of activists (you know who they are) who actually campaign voted for Cruddas
Unison members don’t seem to have wholeheartedly voted for Johnson
Benn was nowhere.
Anyway Harman will do for me. At least it wasn’t Johnson!

Anonymous said...

Not sure the point of nominating Brown for Leader. Did you also nominate Kim Jong-Il as leader of North Korea?

John Gray said...

Hi Simon
Brown will lead the Party into the next general election. We all (in my view) have to unite around him in order to maximise the chances of beating the Tories. Of course we didn’t nominate Kim – he’s a Maoist! According to senior ex-civil servants, us plebs would only support a Stalinist!