Less than 2 weeks after loosing an unprecedented number of local councils, the Labour party who has promised to listen and learn still proves that its rejected ideology is more important than the voters or their wishes.

Five Labour councillors, including the former leader of Durham County Council, have been suspended from the party reports the BBC.

The five were suspended by the Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) after it ordered that all areas should have a 50-50 split of male and female candidates for the local elections.

It later permitted the Easington party to field seven female candidates - four short of the original figure required, because the Easington party said not enough women had come forward.

Former miner Albert Nugent was one of those caught up in the dispute over failing to have enough women candidates. He was suspended on Friday and a new leader Simon Henig was voted in at a meeting at County Hall on Saturday.

Mr Nugent said: "I feel like I've been stitched up - why could they not have waited until Monday after the leadership vote?

"I've been debarred from representing those who elected me. We are supposed to be positively discriminating for women yet the powers that be have suspended two women. We should be trying to bring the party together but we are destroying it."

Quite, but this is listening and learning Labour style. Voters don't matter to NuLab.


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