Bob Piper has been a Labour councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for eight years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The views expressed here are mine in a personal capacity, not those of the Labour Party, Sandwell MBC, Aston Villa or Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Get it! Mine... just mine!
I like this. GrimmerUpNorth on Monday this week boldly goes where lefties dare not go and declares that Squabbling sectarianism not the answer. It's not everyone on the left who is prepared to call for unity between the SWP/Respect/People's Front for the Liberation of Judea and the other assorted sectarian left groups.
Just found this post...belatedly. NO I AM NOT A SECTARIAN SPLITTER.The Cruddas/Trickett post referred specifically to their underwhelming piece in Comment Is Free. IMHO the two Jons have been instrumental in weakening the Labour left...by a) backing Brown and b) continuing to excuse his woeful shift to the Right. As Chris Paul has pointed out, I am a woman....
Bob Piper said:
November 3, 2007 1:46 PM | permalink
I'm pleased to be able to acknowledge that Susan, although I also note that your vitriol towards the soft left like 'the two Jons' is hardly balanced by your enthusiasm for unity with the splitters.
November 1, 2007 4:43 PM | permalink
Susan Grim is a Grrrrrl rather than a tribute to the old Boy Named Sue! But definitely a sectarian splitter nonetheless!!