LABOUR members in Erith and Thamesmead, where a new prospective candidate is to be chosen tomorrow night (May 16), were impressed by the arrival of a fresh postal ballot. The number of requested postal votes has now risen to 116, well over two-thirds of the eligible membership, so the outcome will be decided by people who are not going to be present to hear the candidates make their pitch for one of the safest seats in the south east. But what impressed was the fact that they are all numbered, unlike the last set. And they have been sent to the office of an independent lawyer for safe keeping, instead of Labour headquarters where they were tampered with. Now why didn’t they bother to do it right in the first place?
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