D Little wrote:Oh I don't know Bob, I can think of 1 or 2 of your old labour sparring partners that are delighted with this news.
Anything but, David - and I honestly think it's great for the Labour Party.
A load of boring old farts, who have spent their existence trying to memorise the minutiae of Council Procedure as though they were about to sit a TFL test on the 'Knowledge', enabling them to pull up others on telling the difference between a VAOI and an OSI, are finding that the world has changed and a younger keener brighter generation are taking over with the enthusiasm (and naivety of their age).
They thought their years of blind opposition to change and modernity and allegiance to the true cross of 'socialism' and 'unions' would make them revered elder statesmen and instead there's a whole group of kids shouting 'get out of the way Grandad'.
Yup. Opposition spokesman on Parks and Gardens at DDC really was the highest they would ever get.
They never really were contenders.