Background check reveals Lucas's politics
Thursday 28 January 2010
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EmailIn your interview with Nancy Platts, the Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion (M Star January 26), she says that the Tories would prefer her main opponent the Greens' Caroline Lucas to win "as it is not clear how Caroline would vote in Parliament."
Given Caroline's record in Brussels as an MEP - which has led to her being voted Politician of the Year in the Observer Ethical Awards in 2007 and 2009, and MEP of the Year in 2008 by Parliament magazine - her lifelong activism in CND, her high-profile campaigning against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, her tireless support for the Palestinian people and her explicit description of herself and her party as anti-capitalist - I think that it's pretty clear how she would vote.
The question is, how would Nancy Platts vote?
With the tiny handful of decent Labour MPs like John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn, she would never have been selected to join them if the new Labour bureaucrats thought that likely. Or will she end up like the vast majority of parliamentary careerists who talk left at election times and then obediently fall in line in the ranks of new Labour's lobby fodder?
Sean Thompson London NW5
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