Tellers and Tremors

Frank addresses the Birkenhead CLP : “I’m a teller and you lot do as your told “

Just a quick  update on last night’s Birkenhead Constituency Labour Party (CLP) meeting which promised to be earth-shattering 

Whilst you can read the Skwawkbox report that is headlined BIRKENHEAD RESULT ‘MIXED BUT SEISMIC’- AND CONTROVERSY AS MP COUNTS VOTES

we also received eyewitness reports suggesting that whilst there were a few concessions and accommodations made but the old guard fought a rearguard(!) action and  consequently they described the outcome of the meeting as more of a slight tremor than a seismic earthquake .

However it was clear the cabal was rattled with Birkenhead MP Frank Field taking his control freakery to a whole new level by acting as a teller at the vote count. What is interesting to us  that as far as the Skwawkbox  know , no Labour MP has acted as a teller before and :

‘This caused consternation among members and the regional Labour regional representative at the meeting reportedly told members that if they decided to put a complaint in about the MP teller, he would have to uphold it. As yet, no decision on a complaint is known to have been made.’

However breath-holding is not advised on Labour North West taking any action against Field even if the matter is referred to them. Nevertheless ,with Field facing the first significant challenge to his autocracy in many years , these are particularly interesting times for local politics which means that Wirral Leaks remains on stand by with the Geiger counter.