That lingering backwash of the patriarchal world of industry, trade unionism and smoke-filled constituency committee rooms, which did for Barbara Castle all those years ago, had one more outing, felling a candidate who would have stood head and shoulders above her rivals (metaphorically if not literally) in any general election.
In another blunt reproach to entrenched attitudes, she admitted that constituency selection committees seemed to prefer candidates they would "be happy to have a drink with on a Sunday morning" - the negation of the meritocracy the party claimed to espouse.
Accounts show that Francis Chichester Ltd - ostensibly a map publishing company - received £445,000 from EU coffers 'in connection with secretarial and assistant services for the European Parliament, constituency and committee work'.
For many of those working in the Commons, particularly those representing marginal seats, it's a gruelling life of late votes, constituency engagements, bill committees and many hours sat on a train chugging back to the constituency from Westminster.
Members of constituency-based search committees, parsed according to criteria that may bear little on evaluating candidates, often have little insight into the position they seek to fill.
Until her retirement in 1931 she worked relentlessly for the working class of her constituency, serving on numerous committees concerned with health and welfare services - leading campaigns for free school milk, children's play parks, municipal wash houses and the city's first family planning clinic.
The site, she added, "builds and documents a constituency for what the committee wants to do.
The idea for protecting the World Cup bidding process from voter-bribery allegations now dogging all recent tournaments and the votes for Russia and Qatar as hosts in 2018 and 2022 respectively, is to enlarge the constituency beyond the executive committee and have all 209 associations vote.
Unite's influence also extends into local Labour politics, where many MPs opposed to Corbyn fear local Unite officials are trying to pack their people on to key committees in constituencies, with the ultimate aim of bringing about mass deselections of the disloyal.
As well as Theresa May's Maidenhead constituency, the home affairs committee report also lists David Cameron's West Oxfordshire council, George Osborne's Cheshire East council, Philip Hammond's Runnymede council and Michael Gove's Surrey Heath council as having no destitute asylum seekers housed in their areas.
