Where Thanet Labour lost me.
Written by Matt B · first published 14/03/2011
Today I made a very important and long thought out decision and signed up as a member of a political party.
It’s not been easy to choose a party and I am not going to claim that everything about the party I have chosen makes me happy but at least for now I can live with my choice. This does, now, change my disclaimer that I have no party affiliation as clearly I now do.
For a while there back in 2009 I came close to joining the Thanet Labour Party. My reasons for considering joining were two fold. First Clive Hart had left me with the impression that he would happily support my standing for election for Dane Valley (something I have long felt I should do) and second I do not in all fairness feel I could join Thanet Conservatives.
My lack of desire to Join Thanet Conservatives has nothing to do with party policy and everything to do with the fact that any club with Sandy Ezekiel in, much less as leader of, was something I wanted nothing to do with.
The idea of patching things up with Dr Moores doesn’t bother me. Indeed most of our years long spat seems to me nothing more than mutually beneficial posturing.
So that left me with Labour as my only other choice. However I did not join due to lack of motivation and have now very much become glad that I did not.
The spat between Mark Nottingham and Clive Hart has hurt and offended me deeply. That a party could throw one of their best to the dogs just leaves me cold.
As political leaders and representatives this is simply not the way that we should be behaving. If a party will throw it’s own hard working members tot he curb what will they do with supporters and voters?
I even have leaked to me documentation that seems to show that Clive has not been entirely honest and that Mark seems to have a point. To be honest I’m not sure what sort of article to write around that topic.
You might have guessed that Clive Harts behaviour was the final straw for any support I had for Thanet Labour. Being already deeply offended by Thanet Conservatives I had little option but to side with the Thanet Liberal Democrat Party.
So I am now quite firmly with the Yellow Rosette wearing Lib-Dems. Just don’t get me started on the current government...
It’s not been easy to choose a party and I am not going to claim that everything about the party I have chosen makes me happy but at least for now I can live with my choice. This does, now, change my disclaimer that I have no party affiliation as clearly I now do.
For a while there back in 2009 I came close to joining the Thanet Labour Party. My reasons for considering joining were two fold. First Clive Hart had left me with the impression that he would happily support my standing for election for Dane Valley (something I have long felt I should do) and second I do not in all fairness feel I could join Thanet Conservatives.
My lack of desire to Join Thanet Conservatives has nothing to do with party policy and everything to do with the fact that any club with Sandy Ezekiel in, much less as leader of, was something I wanted nothing to do with.
The idea of patching things up with Dr Moores doesn’t bother me. Indeed most of our years long spat seems to me nothing more than mutually beneficial posturing.
So that left me with Labour as my only other choice. However I did not join due to lack of motivation and have now very much become glad that I did not.
The spat between Mark Nottingham and Clive Hart has hurt and offended me deeply. That a party could throw one of their best to the dogs just leaves me cold.
As political leaders and representatives this is simply not the way that we should be behaving. If a party will throw it’s own hard working members tot he curb what will they do with supporters and voters?
I even have leaked to me documentation that seems to show that Clive has not been entirely honest and that Mark seems to have a point. To be honest I’m not sure what sort of article to write around that topic.
You might have guessed that Clive Harts behaviour was the final straw for any support I had for Thanet Labour. Being already deeply offended by Thanet Conservatives I had little option but to side with the Thanet Liberal Democrat Party.
So I am now quite firmly with the Yellow Rosette wearing Lib-Dems. Just don’t get me started on the current government...
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