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Labour Parliamentary candidate quits: “the national party have chosen to … engage in meaningless posturing”

Richard Wilson, who was Labour’s candidate at Guildford in the general election, has quit his posts in the party following Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader:

I am horrified that the national party have chosen to turn their back on the British people and engage in meaningless posturing instead by electing Jeremy Corbyn as leader…

Now that Jeremy Corbyn is Labour leader, I could not stand on that voter’s doorstep and tell him that he should vote Labour. I could not persuade him that Labour under Corbyn would protect the economy and national security because I do not believe it myself. By the next election every voter will have heard of Corbyn’s positions on reopening coal mines, printing money, giving up the Falklands, appeasing Putin, seizing shares from private investors and all the other daft loony left fantasies and they will laugh at Labour canvassers.

Since I can’t support the direction that the party has chosen to take I don’t feel that I should hold any administrative position any more. I am stepping down from the Surrey Heath CLP Executive Committee and from being the Community Campaigning Officer.

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