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discotheque, and that a man had wandered into the room from time to time in order to set up beer barrels!
Let us compare this with the irregularițies which have ten place in cases where the sitting MP has been re selected. Most of these irregularities have centred around the 'shortlist of one' manoeuvre.
In Cardiff South East, West Bromwich and Pontefract, the National Agent's representatives have misrepresented the NEC's guideTres regarding shortlists of one. When organisations have appealed to the NEC that their nominees had been struck off shortlists for no good reason, the National Agent has replied that there is no right of appeal.
In all of these cases, proper selections have not taken place, despite nominations against the sitting member.
In Pontefract, Geoffrey Lofthouse was re-selected on a shortlist of one after two other candidates were sliced off the shortlist by 43 votes to 41 with four abstentions. The executive committee had recommended a shortlist of one, and, on the advice of the regional organiser, mandated the 20 members of the executive by ll votes to 9 to support this shortlist at the general committee.
The chairperson had also allowed a letter to be read accusing one of the other candidates of 'having attended communist meetings'.
Despite these dubious practices, Lofthouse was endorsed.