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This is an article I wrote for the Guardian's Comment is Free website. I was asked to comment on Purnell's article in the paper. The political control of the Guardian by classic New Labour dilettantes and hangers on means that it is virtually impossible to get published or even mentioned in the printed paper but occasionally it is possible to get an article onto the paper's website Comment is Free.

Coming back from my friend David Taylor's funeral and reading all the usual self serving rubbish from Purnell, Balls, Miliband and Cruddas over the weekend really got my goat. Hence this article.

New Labour's rootless pretenders

The late David Taylor was a principled Labour MP, rooted in his community. Balls, Purnell et al have lost touch with this tradition

John McDonnell guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 January 2010 16.00 GMT Article

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