While everyone else got irate about Kim Howells kicking off a ‘unions vs. Blairites row’ in his The World this Weekend interview (and I’m not about to intrude on private grief), I was shouting at the radio for a whole different reason. I appear to be in a minority of one, but why is it acceptable for senior politicians to say stuff like this about their own activists:
The Lib Dems and Labour need to remember why their activists go into politics
Activists shouldn't be dismissed as 'naïve' or 'immature' for expecting politicians to deliver on party policy.