John Eric Austin and the Golf Club Cabinet

So John Austin MP for Erith & Thamesmead, or John Austin-Walker or whatever your name is, you are proud to have supported Gordon Brown in the recent Labour Party leadership election. I'm reading your September letter to your constituents.

I thought you were meant to be on the left of the party. Even though Brown was going to win couldn't the left have put up a candidate just to try and keep him honest. Someone to say in public that the left doesn't agree with Blair and Brown's Thacherite policies. Are you after a cabinet job? I think you need to take up golf to get into that club.