Damnit. My first experience with the politics of grown-ups was (a long way after I formally became one myself) helping with Coates’ attempt to get back into Strasbourg after he was booted out of the Labour Party for being a socialist. It didn’t work, and even at the time I don’t think that he was serious about winning, but I was impressed by the guy’s massive reserves of decency and honesty.
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Andrew Coates 06.30.10 at 11:16 am
Yes he was far more important than people who are not part of the labour movement’s left realise.
I have written a Euology:
http://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/ken-coates-a-euology/
Chris Williams 06.30.10 at 12:25 pm
Damnit. My first experience with the politics of grown-ups was (a long way after I formally became one myself) helping with Coates’ attempt to get back into Strasbourg after he was booted out of the Labour Party for being a socialist. It didn’t work, and even at the time I don’t think that he was serious about winning, but I was impressed by the guy’s massive reserves of decency and honesty.
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