Publish Or Be Damned

David Blunkett, the veteran MP and former government minister, got it right the other day when he urged the Labour Party to publish its internal report - on alleged vote rigging in the Falkirk constituency. 

What possible reason could there be for keeping the details secret - especially when Labour says it is keen for the business of politics to be conducted in an open and transparent manner?

 

None that I can see and neither can David Blunkett who sensibly pointed out that:

 

"We cannot have a go at the vested interests of the Tory party if we don't clear our own house."

 

And you can't say fairer than that of course - otherwise the party will be accused of terrible double standards - of saying one thing then doing another.

 

Also, as a matter of fairness and natural justice, the Unite trade union deserves to know the evidence on which Labour's selection contest in Falkirk has been halted - because I imagine that the decision has not been taken lightly.

If there has been a double stitch-up, then the conspiracy theorists will have been proved right - though I very much doubt they are because Ed Miliband himself would have had to have been in on the act.

 

So, if there is a suggestion of serious wrongdoing in Falkirk then the obvious thing to do is to spill the beans, as they say - Labour Party members, trade union members and the wider public deserve nothing less.