Walk-out over candidate selection 'childish and hypocritical'

The recent walk-out by local labour members because their candidate didn't get the nod was not only childish, but also hypocritical, bearing in mind, Rotherham labour party parachuted Maggie Godfrey into Maltby. So it's all right on local level but not a n

Why doesn't Cllr Hussain stand alone? He is good enough to represent Rotherham, why does he need a labour ticket? Why doesn't the councillor go independent ,but withLlabour values?

Let's see if the councillor has the will to deliver his own leaflets, run his own campaign, write his own manifesto. In fact I challenge him to do so.

I've delivered 4,000 leaflets on foot to my electors. I wrote my own leaflet and paid for it (unemployed at the time). I wrote my own manifesto and got 27% of the vote in Maltby and defeated the sitting BNP councillor and the Tory Party with all their funding.

I had no campaigners to deliver my leaflets, no unions to back and pay for my campaign, despite the fact I'm pro-union and Labour are now anti-union by ideology and their policies in recent years.

I am calling on all politically-minded people in all areas of rotherham to rise up and throw your hat in the ring come next May's elections.

Tories, Lib-Dems andLabour represent free market economics . . . it's a good system if you're a fat cat capitalist or a corrupt MP, but not if you are unemployed or working poor, worrying about food, fuel, heating and Christmas; who have been squeezed out of the labour market; whose wages have stagnated for at least three decades and are facing another mugging from energy companies this winter; who are willing to let old people die this winter so their shareholders can fill their bank accounts.

There are thousands of good, morally strong and principled residents in Rotherham who need to stand up in their communities and fight for a better deal, more jobs for locals, more public services, better wages.

Michael Conlon, School Walk, Maltby.