Hoey Puts Her Hunting Boot Into Labour Lambeth
Our most feisty Lambeth politician is the veteran independently-minded MP for Vauxhall Kate Hoey. It's sometime hard to believe that this pro-hunting right-wing Labour MP is really one of the Comrades given her voting record: anti cannabis, anti casinos, anti 24-hour licensing, and pro grammar schools in Northern Ireland at least.
It is no secret at Westminster that she does not see eye to eye with her sister MP for Dulwich and West Norwood and if there is a controversy Kate is bound to be in the heart of the storm. On one occasion attending a Holocaust Day commemoration at the Town Hall, she muttered cattily under her breath about some very ungodly matters including the dress sense and hair style of a leading public servant on the podium and then sang lustily an Anglican hymn that reminded her of school assembly.
Yet Kate is very often on the money when it comes to taking our Labour-led Cabinet to book. "They're very cocky," she exclaimed a few months before the last local elections. She then agreed to have her photograph taken for publication with a Conservative candidate she liked in his leaflets against her own candidates. Her own re-selection for Parliament was by all accounts a difficult piece of navigation, but it seems that at the 11th hour her critics took their tanks off her lawn. Otherwise, she had told contacts in other political parties she was planning to stand as an "independent Liberal Conservative," which is in itself an unusual combination although perhaps not to someone brought up in Ulster. Oddly enough had she stood as an Independent I'm sure many voters who normally support other parties than Labour would have backed her.
So where has the girl from over the Irish Sea done good? Tell the truth the way Labour doesn't like it , I guess. She told The Commons last week:
Carry on, Kate!
It is no secret at Westminster that she does not see eye to eye with her sister MP for Dulwich and West Norwood and if there is a controversy Kate is bound to be in the heart of the storm. On one occasion attending a Holocaust Day commemoration at the Town Hall, she muttered cattily under her breath about some very ungodly matters including the dress sense and hair style of a leading public servant on the podium and then sang lustily an Anglican hymn that reminded her of school assembly.
Yet Kate is very often on the money when it comes to taking our Labour-led Cabinet to book. "They're very cocky," she exclaimed a few months before the last local elections. She then agreed to have her photograph taken for publication with a Conservative candidate she liked in his leaflets against her own candidates. Her own re-selection for Parliament was by all accounts a difficult piece of navigation, but it seems that at the 11th hour her critics took their tanks off her lawn. Otherwise, she had told contacts in other political parties she was planning to stand as an "independent Liberal Conservative," which is in itself an unusual combination although perhaps not to someone brought up in Ulster. Oddly enough had she stood as an Independent I'm sure many voters who normally support other parties than Labour would have backed her.
So where has the girl from over the Irish Sea done good? Tell the truth the way Labour doesn't like it , I guess. She told The Commons last week:
"There has recently been a ballot in Lambeth for an ALMO [see previous blog] and I was ashamed by the way that my borough handled it. The ballot form was biased and set out in a way that was clearly one sided. Something like GB pound 400,000 was spent on glossy brochures, DVDs, and all sorts of things that were sent to tenants, and they amounted to propaganda as to why the tenants should have their housing put out to an ALMO."
Carry on, Kate!
posted by Cllr John Whelan on Sunday, July 29, 2007
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