Brett on Harry's Place says it all:
The local Waltham Forest paper is reporting that the national Labour Party has agreed to fund Miranda Grell's appeal against her conviction after she smeared a rival as a paedophile.
For more details, see my post from yesterday.
The thing is, even what she admitted to doing - telling voters that her LibDem rival, Barry Smith, was gay and had a teenage Thai boyfriend when she knew Smith's partner was actually 39 and Malaysian - is bad enough to warrant the party distancing herself from her. It is clear that she was playing into a regrettably popular prejudice that gay men have paedophile tendencies, and the invocation of a fake "Thai" boyfriend twenty years younger than Smith's real partner's age was transparently to gain an electoral advantage from this prejudice.
Even her running-mate testified against her and said she had "a disgusting attitude".
So why is the national Labour Party backing this behaviour?
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
The breathtaking disgrace of Labour's continued support for Miranda Grell
Written by Paul on Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Labels: Labour
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Because they're c**ts!
Why, indeed? The Labour Party must not be let off the hook on this. She was found guilty (and rightly so, on the basis of what I have been told by local people in Leyton) and has destroyed a noble man's reputation and political career. During the trial, some people in our party were urging caution, but I see no reason now Ms Grell has been found guilty why we should not make a hell of a stink about this; because it is one of the most putrid bits of character assassination that I have ever come across.
Hear, hear, Jonathan
My worry is that the £30k for the appeal is a small sum to warn off some Liberal Democrat opponents who may be thinking of opening up wards or making a proper campaign against Labour as they know a large number of Liberal Democrat activists of this nature are Gay.
They won't use it of course against their own Gay candidates but is handy to dispirit those that might be thinking of putting themselves forward.
Not content with centralising power they aim to grab as much of it as possible for themselves.
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