The Labour Party dish it out, but don't want it back

A senior Labour MP ... is gathering support for a move to stop the [leadership] contest, on the grounds that Labour’s political enemies were warping the process by signing up members to vote for Mr Corbyn in September.

So reports The Mail on Sunday. It continues:

... the Daily Telegraph urged readers to pay the £3 fee to join Labour to try to destroy it from within by voting for Mr Corbyn.

My first comment is that I do not care much who wins the Labour leadership, because all four candidates are communists.  My second comment is that the Labour Party has never been keen on democracy.  For example, the first ever Labour government in 1924 planned to lend money to the government of Stalin, even though they knew that Stalin was unelected.

Another relevant comment is that any political party which allows people to vote in a leadership election after paying just one very small membership fee is asking for trouble.

My final comment is that the Labour Party is happy to use infiltration as a method of attacking its enemies.  In the 1970s, a Labour government recruited people to infiltrate the National Front.  (The evidence for this is, for example, a World In Action (Granada Television) documentary screened on 3 July 1978.)

In 1996, West Yorkshire Police recruited a man called Gary Shopland to infiltrate the British National Party.  He worked undercover for seven years, and six of those years were under a Labour government. It was also under a Labour government that a police officer called Mark Kennedy worked undercover for many years as a climate change campaigner, while another undercover officer tried to obtain information about the family and friends of the murdered Stephen Lawrence.

It may be the case that undercover officers occasionally obtain useful information, but consider the following.  Mark Kennedy was hugely well paid to go undercover, and yet a criminal trial collapsed when the defendants demanded answers to questions about his involvement in the alleged crime.  The Guardian has reported that many undercover officers were allowed to take part in criminal activities and also commit adultery while on duty.  Channel 4 has reported similar facts about an undercover officer called Bob Lambert.

The BBC also joined in the fun when it employed a lying scumbag called Jason Gwynne to infiltrate the British National Party.  This too happened under a Labour government.  He worked with another undercover scumbag called Andy Sykes, although it is not clear who exactly was pulling this other man's strings.

In short, the Labour Party is utterly immoral, and I hope that whoever is elected its leader will lead it into the oblivion that it deserves.  Ideally the Conservative Party would follow it there.

Related previous posts include:
Musings on the general election
The great paedo cover-up continues
The story of Peter Francis