Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

Labour MP’s prepared to use
members’ money to ban them from
voting
What a boost this approach would be for British business. Comet would
never have gone bankrupt if anyone buying a washing machine handed
over their money and was then told they wouldn’t be given a washing
machine
It’s marvellous how they manage it, but every week the people running the
Labour Party election perform a stunt even more spectacular than the last.
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Next week Margaret Hodge will kidnap John McDonnell, which she will
claim is in accordance with the Labour Party Constitution, Rule 457.
(Shadow Chancellor Chained to a Radiator in the Basement Clause (14
B iii).) Peter Mandelson will reveal he has met Vladimir Putin to request
he cuts off the oil supply to Jeremy Corbyn’s office, and Hilary Benn will
announce he has hired a fleet of Tornados to bomb a Momentum branch
meeting in Exeter.
Labour must be bold and ambitious, and never before can an
organisation have illegally banned its own members from
voting in an election it promised them a vote in, then spent the
money it took from those members on appealing to the High
Court to [try and] keep the ban.
MID-AUGUST 2016