Joan Ruddock

Thought I would take a moment to appraise you of an exchange we've had with our nobody Labour MP Joan Ruddock on the 42 days' detention vote. Thought I might as well share this correspondence, so that you also could kill a few moments on a Friday savouring the kind of limp response former Labour voters get when they approach their local Brownite buttkissing MP on issues of real significance... 

The story:

A couple of weeks ago, my partner wrote to Joan Ruddock to tell her that he would no longer be voting for Labour on account of the government's recent vote in favour of 42 days' detention for terrorist suspects.

He just got the world's wettest response from Joan. Truly. It arrived in the mail today. The patronising tone of it is superb - it's like Joan is reading a pop-up book on war really slowly to a five-year-old. And none of his points about withdrawing his support from the Labour party are acknowledged or addressed. No surprises there, I guess.