So the electorate of the above borough decided to call time on the family Dunwoody, the Labour Party and Mr G Brown? Good for them, on every count. Gwyneth Dunwoody was a dreadful hectoring old harridan, a politico of the school that seemed to have no inclination to hide the view that if you didn’t agree with her opinion then it must clear to all and sundry that you were a cretin. I’m sure that her apologists will claim that she was an exemplary constituency MP, and this could well have been the case although Thursday’s result would suggest otherwise, but should this have been the case then this is where she should have continued to ply her ‘I know more and I know best’ flavour of politics. Now in the interest of full disclosure; I’m a contrary old git, I’ve been practicing this outlook for many years but just what was the Labour Party thinking when trying to foist another Dunwoody on it’s long suffering voters? I can’t recall ever voting for a candidate who has been elected in whatever constituency I have been living, but even if I had done so and they had proved to be the very epitome of a constituency MP and gone on to hold high office and discharge the function of that office to my absolute satisfaction I would not be voting for their offspring. Now that the ancient home of inherited privilege and nepotism, the House of Lords, is being turned over it seems the Labour Party believes it’s new abode is in the House of Commons? I’m reasonably sure that there is an initial distrust of anything that smacks of ‘dynasty’ and no matter what level of talent is brought to the table it seems to me to be an electoral handicap rather than a benefit.