In praise of Roger Godsiff

Pregnancy first trimesterCampaign Group MP Lynne designer has ended her parliamentary occupation by nearly but not quite endorsing Salma Yaqoob (candidate of martyr Galloway's Respect party, which utilised to be a alinement of Trots and Islamists but has today suffered a achievement discover by the Socialist Workers' Party).Yaqoob is streaming in the newborn city uranologist Green centre against stager MP Roger Godsiff. This is expected to be a Labour vs. Respect meagerly though the Lib Dems also flamboyant their chances.You crapper see the certain phraseology designer has utilised here: http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/April_10/jones-endorses-yaqoob-080410.html - fastening just brief of the candid endosement of Yaqoob that would advance to automatic expulsion from the Labour Party.Ironically, Godsiff's voting pattern in the Commons is not that disimilar to that of designer and the rest of the Campaign Group:

• He voted for Jones' amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill
• He voted for an inquiry into the Irak War
• He voted to abolish the ID cards programme
• He voted for Frank Field's rectification offering on the 10p tax rate
• He voted for the introduction of the committee grouping in topical councils
• He voted against 90 day detention

Overall he was the 16th most rebellious member of the PLP in 2008/9.

Either Ms designer is much a sectarian that anyone who does not correct her own achievement of existence the 5th most rebellious Labour MP staleness be purged, or she has an extremely daylong memory.

For the another half of Roger Godsiff's semipolitical career, before he became a totally un-whippable protest backbencher, was to hit been Political Officer of APEX, after part of the GMB, in the '80s. In this persona he was one of the key organisers with grouping same Evangelist Golding and Evangelist Spellar, of the fightback by moderate trade unionists which systematically broken the Bennite Hard Left's appendage on Labour's NEC and enabled Kinnock and Hattersley to attain Labour electable again.

Roger Godsiff haw be an abrasive character with some quirky views but he doesn't merit to be stabbed in the back by a man Labour MP. The terminal thing city uranologist Green needs is an MP who is a proponent of Respect's sort of communalist politics.

People on Labour's mitt should be championship Godsiff because he is a free-thinker who has rebelled with the mitt on a range of key issues. People on Labour's correct should be championship him because his past effort to Labour's recovery from insanity deserves our gratitude. Lynne designer joins the ranks of grouping same Brian Sedgemore who hit chosen to modify their parliamentary careers by betraying their Party.

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