tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post6246554783958070640..comments2024-01-11T10:25:57.007+00:00Comments on Labour of Gove: Dis Respect: "We'll Win the Game, Me Boys; Bobbing Up and Down Like This"Chris Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-74955539876753286352007-10-02T10:40:00.000+01:002007-10-02T10:40:00.000+01:00The former may well be so. I'm not sure. I don't k...The former may well be so. I'm not sure. I don't know enough about what he has and hasn't achieved and whether this was optimal for his members or not.<BR/><BR/>Effective does sound like it might be a factual kind of word, almost scientific, but in fact it is very much moot. Your effective here may be someone else's serially failed.<BR/><BR/>I like Bob well enough from what I've seen of him at LRC and LAtW events and the like. He is a genuine class warrior and a pickled in aspic throwback of the old school. <BR/><BR/>The latter assertion also does have some merit. Usdaw did it seems pile in and affiliate lots of branches. They are allowed to do this. The GMB, the T&G, Unison, CWU and Unite could have done exactly the same thing under the rules.<BR/><BR/>BUT and it's a big BUT no-one but no-one would have been able to stitch up Bob Wareing if he had been regarded as a competent constituency MP and had been even a halfway good organiser.<BR/><BR/>He should have planned a succession IMO. He should have groomed a suitable successor. He should have recruited and retained members to support his choice. he should be looking forward to a long and peaceful retirement.<BR/><BR/>Even the local candidates vying to replace Bob themselves failed to do the basic work meeting and greeting and working the membership lists and their 10 and 20 years of local networking.<BR/><BR/>Beaten by Twigg in Liverpool where someone from Knowsley or Crosby is regarded as a carpet bagger? that is not being stitched up that is falling asleep at the wheel.<BR/><BR/>Instead he is going to piss away his career standing against his own party.<BR/><BR/>Again I like Bob 2 well enough from what I've seen of him. But was he a good constituency MP? Has he been making the right moves? Could he not have done better over this sleection?<BR/><BR/>This Respect initiative is going nowhere Susan and as a fellow supporter of the notion that the fight goes on you cannot possibly see it as anything other than a distraction based on a delusion?Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-22120350561885068472007-10-02T10:11:00.000+01:002007-10-02T10:11:00.000+01:00Bob Crow is one of the most effective union leader...Bob Crow is one of the most effective union leaders around and Bob Wareing was utterly stitched up by USDAW.susan presshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184296742644071259noreply@blogger.com