Some people take losing very badly. Ann Clwyd and her supporters were by no means gracious in defeat, when on Tuesday evening Ms Clwyd was deposed as the chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party. After hearing the result of the ballot, in one of the House of Commons committee room, MPs were almost immediately summoned to vote. When Ms Clwyd and one of her supporters former minister Janet Anderson, saw a gaggle of Brownite MPs and some of the parliamentary private secretaries who resigned in September after writing to Tony Blair to say he should resign, chatting outside the division lobby, paranoia kicked in. Ms Anderson, believing she had uncovered the sinister plot to unseat Ms Clywd, hissed: "Well that says it all doesn't it". In reality Ms Clwyd who only had a 11 vote majority when elected last year, had alienated a number of MPs since then and brought defeat on herself.
*From my Independent on Sunday diary today
3 comments:
Not sure about that last bit Iain. Yes she had a small majority but it is almost a tradition in that post to re-elect the incumbent. Purely by chance I happened to be in the Strangers bar on Tuesday night, and I would guess by the demeanour of those present that some people certainly thought they were sending a message to the Leader and Ann Clywd was the unfortunate victim.
Hey Bob, give us a song. How about 'Mammeee..'?
You Labour tossers make me sick.
Oh dear, my heart bleeds for Ms Clywd - perhaps I shouldn't say this as hundreds are dying from a very unnecessary war which she so supports...
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