Friday, March 04, 2005
Brian Wilson talks sense.
Spekaing about the Labour grass roots membership ahead of this weeks conference, Brian said:
"They feel largely ignored by the leadership and their spin doctors, listing among their complaints the ban on conference delegates influencing policy and even commenting on matters reserved to Westminster," he said.
Mr Wilson argued that healthy differences of opinion have to be aired to form good party policy and said that politics needed the stimulus of debate.
He agrees that Labour had to gag the fringe extremists in the 1980s, but now feels that Scottish and UK conferences are reduced to rallies of the faithful.
No comment is necessary, as the TV pictures will prove.
