This morning’s Western Mail claims that more than 50 Labour MPs may face deselection battles over their parliamentary expenses. The former Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears is the most high-profile of those who are in trouble with their constituency party though the paper also fingers Mansfield MP, Alan Meale as a possible casualty.
There is no sign that any of these 50 MPs will be in Wales though we are aware of murmurings in the Bridgend constituency, where the local paper recently ran a two page story containing pictures and the price of the sort of furniture their Labour MP had bought with her allowances for her second home.
As yet there is no link to the article but here is one the Western Mail published on 21 May saying the same thing. Suggestions that this article will be republished in one form or another at monthly intervals up until the next General Election so as to give the impression that Labour are doing something about this scandal whilst the number of reselections can be counted on the fingers of one hand are, we are sure, wide of the mark.
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