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Originally Posted by English Democrat
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She would make a massive impact if she joined one of the smaller parties.
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I agree with what ED says above. It is very unlikely she would apply to UKIP. But if she did - the party should tell her to get lost.
Her credibility sunk with many people when she didn't resign from the Government when Robin Cook (the Late former Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House) did over the Iraq 'war'. Although she did eventually go - she took so long over it that her eventual departure (from the Government) was rather an anti-climax. Not that I'm suggesting that she only clung on to her job in the discredited europhile Blair regime because she liked the Ministerial salary and Government limousine, of course.
I don't like her anyway - she's just another CND-type leftie who is no friend of the Unionist (i.e. pro-British) cause in Northern Ireland, by the way.
The only thing she ever did for the eurosceptic cause was express her surprise that a third of our International Aid budget money has to be given to the EU.
Apart from that, Claire Short has (in my view) proved to be politically useless.
No doubt there will now be calls from some Labour Party political activists for the next Labour candidate for her constituency in inner Birmingham to be someone of the Islamic faith. The Labour MP (and ally of Gordon Brown) Ed Balls, is also looking for a seat after his Normanton constituency was abolished by the boundary commissioner.