"Militant John"

Bearing in mind the previous post I thought it might amuse people to read about “Militant John”. According to this Newham Tory anonymous smearblog.

“Neil Kinnock did a good job of getting rid of most of them in the mid-eighties but he must be upset to see that Militant Labour resurfaces in different guises nowadays. One of Labour's most vocal candidates this year is a comrade who takes up arms with every strike in the land”.

Do they mean moi? Surely not! It goes on...

“That said, Militant John, the Labour council candidate for West Ham, aka Joh Gray”

They do, they do! What will all my comrades in united left and of course the former millies at SPEW make of this pronouncement!

The post then falsely goes on to claim that I had a “bitch slap” at work over this post (news to me!).

Now people know that I can be a little bit naughty at times. But even leaving aside their misogynist language you can see from this smear blog all what is wrong in Newham with the “Opposition Parties”. It is Tory supporting but claims to be independent, it calls for greater accountability and scrutiny but it is anonymous. It is incredibly pompous, conceited and self important even though no one in the real world reads it. It is completely obsessed with personalities, gossip and trivia. It ignores real policy analysis and any debate about issues that matter.

It is written by people who have no politics.

I was chatting to some senior Tories during the campaign and they acknowledged that this blog is rather symbolic of the problems they face in Newham. A small number of their so called supporters would rather sit around PC’s making stupid childish comments than get out “on the knocker” and talk to real people about real policies.

No wonder we won 63 nil in Newham and we have amongst the largest Labour majorities in the Country.  So "Militant John" says "keep up with the good work comrades"!