Publish Or Be Damned

The news that Police Scotland will not be conducting a criminal investigation into the Falkirk vote rigging scandal removes the last lame excuse the Labour Party has been hiding behind - for not publishing its internal report on the matter.

Publish Or Be Damned (4 July 2013)

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.