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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Thu Jul 4, 2013, 10:53 AM Jul 2013

MP Tom Watson resigns from shadow cabinet role as general election coordinator [View all]

Tom Watson has resigned from his shadow cabinet role as general election co-ordinator, he said on his blog today.

The move follows a continuing row over the party's Falkirk selection process.

The MP said he was stepping aside to safeguard "the unity of the party", and called for an internal report into the controversy to be published.

In a letter to Ed Miliband published on his blog Mr Watson wrote that: "I’ve thought about it and still feel it is better for you and the future unity of the party that I go now."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/breaking-mp-tom-watson-resigns-from-shadow-cabinet-role-as-general-election-coordinator-8688356.html

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MP Tom Watson resigns from shadow cabinet role as general election coordinator [View all] dipsydoodle Jul 2013 OP

The scandal Anarcho-Socialist Jul 2013 #1

That was helpful -- thanks. pacalo Jul 2013 #2

And it's shameful to recruit members of your union into your political party to support you ... non sociopath skin Jul 2013 #3

I can't find what the problem was meant to be muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #4

A more cynical man that I might think ... non sociopath skin Jul 2013 #5

I now hear that the accusation is some people were signed up without telling them muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #7

It would be so - if it turns out to be true Anarcho-Socialist Jul 2013 #8

Police rule out Falkirk vote rigging inquiry muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #18

The crushing irony is that one of the reasons so many of the Tory faithful have decamped to UKIP fedsron2us Jul 2013 #9

The thing for me here..... T_i_B Jul 2013 #6

You do not have to be a member of the Labour party to belong to a union fedsron2us Jul 2013 #10

I would guess that even with the sadly successful Thatcherite war against unions... LeftishBrit Jul 2013 #11

There are something in the region of 6.5 million Union members in the UK fedsron2us Jul 2013 #12

Agree on all this LeftishBrit Jul 2013 #13

Well said, Feds non sociopath skin Jul 2013 #14

Great post, thanks n/t Anarcho-Socialist Jul 2013 #15

The problems go deeper then the relationship between Labour & Unions T_i_B Jul 2013 #16

I think it goes even beyond the attractiveness of Labour or any particular party... LeftishBrit Jul 2013 #17