David Clark, erstwhile Foreign Officer Special Adviser, is becoming a standard-bearer for rebellious, discontented Labour loyalists.  His analysis this week in The Guardian said it all for me: how do we express our distaste for Blair without abandoning the Party we love?  He proposed a sophisticated scheme for tactical voting among Labour voters, which could never convey a coherent message.

I will continue to pay my Party Membership Subscription, and faithfully maintain my Party membership.  I have been in continuous membership since 1963, and I see no reason why I should give the Blair clique the comfort of driving me out of the Party.

But I have already cancelled my supplementary donation, which as a reasonably well-endowed Member I used to give to the Party each year, by Standing Order.  I will not do any more than my Party Membership expressly demands - because it's my Party, and I want it back.

Nor will I attend the various £60/£100 per plate fund-raising dinners to which I am regularly invited, by both Old Queen Street and Welsh Labour in Cardiff.  Mine will be, at national level, a minimalist membership.  I continue to contribute to my Constituency Party fund-raising efforts, including the regular Prize Draw by Standing Order

I will campaign actively for my Labour Candidate Martin Caton, who is one of the good guys, regularly part of Labour's backbench revolts, and against the Iraq War.  I will put a great effort into his campaign, and contribute financially,  because I want to see him returned with an increased majority, to demonstrate local support for his principled stands on the great issues of the day, upon which we have been otherwise betrayed.  For me, Iraq is the primary issue - Foundation Hospitals are a misconceived triviality, and I supported University top-up fees.

But I will not answer the Party's siren calls to go canvassing in any marginal Constituency, unless I can conscientiously back the particular Labour candidate.  In my younger days, I would respond loyally to the Party's call, into whichsoever Constituency it led - but no more.  I am on strike.  Like David Clark, I want to send a message to Westminster and to Blair, and this is my puny way of doing it.

And I will definitely vote for Martin Caton, in the hope of returning him to Westminster with an increased majority.  And while I endorse with the David Clark thesis, I cannot see any way of coordinating action like this nationwide.

What will you do?  I encourage other Labour faithfuls to let me know their position, for publication here on LivePolitics.

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