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| Dawn Butler and Shahrar Ali Foe Hustings 2010 |
Reacting to today's news that Brent Labour Party had selected Dawn
Butler to fight Brent Central in 2015, Shahrar Ali, The Green's
candidate in 2010, said:
Labour's selection of Dawn
Butler to fight the Brent Central seat is as if they are proposing a blast
from Blair's New Labour past. Let voters be reminded where Butler stood
on a whole raft of hugely consequential issues.
In
2007, Butler voted against a motion
calling for a new sense of urgency on climate change, and, in 2009,
against our becoming a signatory to the 10:10 climate change campaign.
On Nuclear deterrence, Butler voted ambiguously on the renewal of a
Trident system (2007). On
anti-terror legislation, Butler voted reliably with her Government
throughout, and, in 2009, voted to keep the maximum period of detention
without charge for terrorist suspects at 28 days (instead of a lower
period).
On such fundamental political issues of the day, Butler's priorities were wrong or muddled. Labour Party members may be
prepared to forgive her past mistakes but I doubt if the electorate will be quite as tolerant. Greens stand for a radical break from the barely distinguishable politics of the three main parties and we shall fight the General Election on that basis.
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