As a Labour Party member I was appalled at the supposed coup attempt by Geoff Buff Hoon MP and Patrica Hewitt MP against the Leader of the Labour Party the Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP and our Prime Minister, to push for a secret ballot in the Parlimentary Labour Party. To see if there was majority support for Mr Brown (so I take it that us party members are not worthy of having our say to?)
Therefore I thought I would email the two MP's concerned at their offices and to tell them would I thought of their actions, I have reproduced the email below:
Dear Geoff Hoon MP/Patricia Hewitt MP
I am a Labour Party member and I am writing to you with the utmost concern about your actions to try and have a ballot in the Parliamentary Labour Party regarding the leadership.
I cannot understand with a General Election in a few months, why you choose to do this when you and others had your chance after the June 2009 Euro and Local elections when members of the Cabinet and the Parliamentary Labour Party decided not to remove our Prime Minister.
What you are doing is self indulgent, disloyal and a distraction and will only incite the media to spend more time on this matter and not scrutinise the lack of Tory policies and David Cameron's leadership skill's.
Do remember that Gordon Brown saved this country from a catastrophic financial meltdown and recapitalised the banks which even President Barack Obama copied later on, and the polls are now getting tighter and everything is now to play for and therefore changing a leader at this late stage will make the Labour Party appear divided and as you know voters do not not like a party that appears to be fighting amongst themselves, also it gives the impression that the party has given up on wanting to win and is more interested on who leads the party when the economy and voters jobs are at stake.
I doubt there is that much support amongst other Labour MP's and members of the Cabinet and whether this ballot can take place under the present rule book.
Also this matter will not help party members morale or encourage any one to join or become supporters and help out in the election campaign.
I hope therefore for the sake of party unity you will reconsider in not pushing for this ballot and instead putting your energies in winning the next election for the sake of the Country that cannot afford a Conservative Government.
Kind Regards
Brian Barton
I recieved the following reply from Patricia Hewitt MP:
Dear Brian,
Thank you for your email. I am very sorry that you feel the way you do, but of course I will bear your comments in mind.
Yours sincerely,
Patricia Hewitt
If I recieve a reply from Geoff Buff Hoons MP Office I will post it on my blog also.
An appeal please to all party members and MP's if we want to will the next General Election lets unify around our leader and fight the Tories not ourselves as this great Country of ours cannot afford a Conservative Government.
Remember if the Labour Party loses this election we may never Govern again!
Think this is far fetched remember the following:
a) David Cameron's Tories want to slim down the amount of MP's this will make it near impossible to get an outright majority, which would mean working with the Liberal Democrats (a nightmare scenerio i'm sure you would agree)
b) David Cameron's Tories want to sever in law the opportunity of Trade Union funding with the amount of individual donations from Labour Party Members and big business donations (which I am uncomfortable with and the problems this can bring i.e Cash for Peerages) drying up the Labour Party will go bankrupt.
