They’re not happy in Weston Labour Party…

A letter, courtesy of Save the Labour Party website, from the Weston-super-Mare Constituency Labour Party to Gordon Brown:

At the last GC meeting of Weston-super-Mare CLP on the 3rd April 2008 there was a general consensus amongst the attendees regarding the poor performance of the Labour Party in government and unfortunately much of this criticism centered on you…

I refer to the appalling lack of foresight when it was decided to abolish the 10p rate of income tax which according to reliable sources will cause most harm to 5.3 million of the lowest paid – the very people that our Party should be protecting. No amount of assurances that millions will benefit can or should hide the fact that 5.3 million poorer people will be disadvantaged. This situation is further exacerbated by ministers publicly reneging on an agreement with backbenchers to re-assess the impact of this decision on the poorest in our society. The case for your tax policy is further damaged by the apparent stubbornness on your part to ignore the entreaties of the PLP at last weeks meeting; a stubbornness which will only serve to damage your and the Party’s reputation rather than portray you as a strong leader.

This error of judgment coincides with the calamitous decision to support the closure of Post Offices across the country – which emulates all that was worse about ‘Thatcherism’ – and will again affect those people whose well-being has always been the Labour Party’s crusade and if fully implemented will further impact on the electoral chances of many of our sitting M.Ps and make the task of the activists in the Party more onerous than it is at present…

Your performances in public are lacking in conviction and give rise to a feeling that you are out-of-touch with the pressing issues of the day and that your responses to questions seem to consist of political platitudes and vague references to topics which are of little or no interest to the man or woman in the street.

Ouch.