QUOTE(WikiWatch @ Wed 27th May 2009, 12:07pm)
Sadly, this episode lends creedence to the claims by conservatives that wikipedia is run by lefties. A number of political blogs have picked up on the story in the last few hours.
Boothroyd wasn't exactly a "leftie". He was a New-Labour footsoldier and staunch Blairite with a characteristic "centrist" view.
He spent much of his early time on WP defending Tony Blair and attacking classical leftist figures like George Galloway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=146095754QUOTE(Boothroyd on WP 2007)
Nonsense, it's absolutely clear George Galloway is on the far left and your motive in trying to put across your own views is now increasingly transparent. Opposition to the liberation of Iraq is not in and of itself characteristic of the far left absent any other information, but George Galloway goes much further: eulogizing Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, supporting Hizbollah, opposing nuclear weapons, and then leaving aside foreign policy, support for public ownership, opposition to all forms of outsourcing and privatisation, increased public spending on universal welfare benefits, removal of legal limits on the activities of trade unions, etc. I'm not saying any of these policies are wrong. What I am saying is that taken together they are characteristic of a person on the far left of the political spectrum within the UK. I really don't see how any other view can be taken. Where do you see George Galloway comparatively in the UK? Are you as deluded as Oswald Mosley who insisted he was in the centre? [[User:Fys|Fys]]. “[[User:Fys|Ta]] [[Special:Contributions/Fys|fys]] [[User talk:Fys|aym]]â€. 09:32, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Note the phrase "liberation of Iraq", and the claim that removing restrictions on Trade Unions is a "far left" position.
The Labour Party were created by and funded by the Trade Unions since inception. They've come to a pretty pass when its footsoldiers are claiming that support of the Trade Unions is a marginal "far-left" position.