Terry Fields died at the weekend, aged 71.
I met Terry when he was a Labour MP for Liverpool back in the 80's.
A committed Socialist and Trade Unionist, Terry was also a supporter of the Militant Tendency.
He stood on a platform for radical change that included Nationalising the Banks, a 35 hour week and a minimum wage.
When Terry won the Liverpool vote he gave money to the Labour and Trade Union movement, urging worker's MPs on worker's wages.
Realising that Leadership can get isolated and comforted against the burdens of ordinary people, he advocated ALL Labour MPs should do the same.
Only Tony Mulhearn, another Liverpool MP supported Terry back then.
Fly High, Terry.
Tony Mulhearn was not an MP but he did support my father. But in essence you are correct; why would MPs (apart from his comrades Dave Nellist & Pat Wall) support a revolutionary who understood that to be of the people you had to be part of the people in thought, word, deed and paypacket. What's right is right and me Dad was hardly ever wrong.