John Mutton and the Coventry Labour Party haven’t presented a vigorous and sustained opposition to Conservative control. For a city like ours, Coventry Labour is too new Labour.
When you see councillors opposing PFI shenanigans, city academies, NHS cuts, or proposing concrete actions to oppose industrial job losses, it’s been left to the Socialists.
That's not a bad thing, we agree with the Socialists on a wide variety of policies, but it's not healthy for democracy for the 2nd largest party on the council to behave this way.
The more Labour isn’t active between elections, the more the city will slip away to ourselves, to the Conservatives, to the Socialists, or far more ominously, to BNP candidates in working-class white areas that Labour continues to ignore.
For their own sake, Labour has to run an 18-ward race in May.
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