Lots of struggle, but not much class

Tories in Swansea should take some small consolation in knowing that they don’t have a total monopoly on political fragmentation. We hear that the local Labour hierarchy also has its hands full in sorting out internal wranglings that could threaten part of next year’s election plans.

Indeed, it seems that among the first jobs for their recently appointed elections whizz-kid is to somehow re-instate a candidate ‘illegally’ deselected by a Swansea East branch the other week. This unenviable task will reportedly involve scaling a small pile of dead bodies, according to a garbled e-mail sent to us that refers to “party members determined to root out Trotskyite insurgents”. Duw, there’s dramatic.

Last we heard, an attempt by incomers to re-ignite the class struggle resulted in the party machine lurching a bit too far to the left and falling on them. But with this kind of distraction happening at the fringes, Labour has someway to go before they can successfully portray themselves as an alternative to the current shower running Calamity Hall.