The following was sent by Roger Bun from #192
Keen(s) to get on with the job.
It was a historic night as the elections results came
through at Labour Party HQ Chiswick High Road. And up until the arrival of the
principles involved, probably the best cheer of the night was when Stephen
Twigg got in on his way to deliver his real politics rather than a singular
confrontation with an outgoing and now excusist Mick Portillo. A Portillo who
in the past had lost his hard disc and his secret private life on the same day,
and who now "backing Haigh's future in politics, all the way" to his leaders
well designed resignation.
The massive TV set in the corner of LP HQ
was sending a distinct note of happiness through the building, one of which I
have always admired for its unusal features of a balcony and garden. Wherein,
possibly in some future parliamentarian lifetime, if it was legalised. One
could rest comfortably with ones enormous joint of the genuine, the non "UK
bathtub" in ones hand and begin to think that the world was a far better place
than it really is. But in Chiswick on the 7th of June 2001, when the LP was
setting all sorts of parliamentary records, nobody really cared about such
things. Instead there was a table of wine bottle and beer which proved
perfectly acceptable for such a tactfully resplendent occasion.
And the
stars of the show? They arrived at about 2.30 am. Alan and Anne and their
excellent team of Labourites who had developed their campaigns with case
histories and their like. David Keen, Alan's son who had resigned from his job
to work on his fathers campaign, all seemed full of smiles and congratulations.
Congratulations being showered upon Anne herself, not only for returning as our
MP, but also for bringing assistance to the residents of Chiswick Village in
fighting off the neocapitalist designs of a company calling itself the Chiswick
Village Residents Association for building on top of the roofs, and in enabling
tenants rents to be re-capped.
It far too early in the post election
day to call Alan or Anne for a quote. But I can tell you from what they were
saying in Chiswick last night. That their work inside the LP will provide a
base for those in these west London boroughs to accomplish the more radical
changes needed in bringing a balance to our society. For this is the stated
design of the LP in a 2nd term. And now it seems that all one needs to do is to
make that call to 0207 219 3000, or send that letter to your MP to put across
your point or kick "your own west London sociological thing" into being.
As our local MPs, the Music Industry Human Rights Association has to
lean on and trust the Keens to convey our concerns as to abuse of human rights
to the House and specifically when working towards a genuine war upon hard
drugs, to the Cabinet Office. Mihra runs a very powerful international lobby
group. But here in deepest Chiswick, from whence we sent members of the Anti
Apartheid News Team underground in S Africa, and exposed the Sydney "Opium
Olympiad". It means nothing unless this work is promoted both at the highest
levels of government to advance our work internationally and bring Mihra
funding for our anti class A drug campaigns in the borough and higher education
establishments in the UK. So from the Keens, we seek that which it is always
difficult to get. An understanding of governmental "oversights", which continue
to allow the worlds worst abusers of human rights and most productive producers
of class A drugs to indulge themselves in that which the African National
Congress when fighting against apartheid termed a "normal society."
The
Keens are a formidable team, and maybe west Londoners such as we should count
our lucky stars that two such genuine people were empowered to deal such powers
on our behalf? For there is nothing as good, as the great UK jazz singer Annie
Ross will tell you if you listen to her rendition of the immaculate "Twisted",
as having "two heads are always better than one."
Roger
Bunn
192 Chiswick Village
www.mihra.org/2k
policy.office@mihra.org
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