Mr. Walter Wolfgang has been elected to the Labour Party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC). I hope he finds his seat on the committee more comfortable than the seat in the audience at last year's party conference, from which the 83-year-old was so roughly and publicly ejected after shouting a single word – "rubbish" – during Jack Straw's speech.
After his ignominious departure from the conference centre at the hands of Labour Party bully-boys, the lifelong peace campaigner was (absurdly) detained by the police under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. His election to the NEC must smell sweet.
"It was an unpleasant experience but it has woken people up to the problem of control freakery in the party and I do think this vote is partially a result of that," he said.
Mr. Wolfgang said he would use the platform to speak out against Tony Blair's policy in Lebanon and Iraq, and against nuclear weapons. He also called on the prime minister to quit immediately and said Chancellor Gordon Brown was not the right man to replace him.
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