My article below first appeared on Novaramedia.
Apologies for the long break in updates to this blog. I’ve been unwell, but hope to gradually resume normal service now.
What does the Labour leadership election mean for the radical left?
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My article below first appeared on Novaramedia.
Apologies for the long break in updates to this blog. I’ve been unwell, but hope to gradually resume normal service now.
What does the Labour leadership election mean for the radical left?
At the recent Prime Minister’s Question Time David Cameron goaded interim Labour Leader Harriet Harman on Labour’s attitude to the extension of ‘right to buy’ to Housing Associations. Did Labour agree with it? She failed to answer, repeatedly. Why? Her failure to respond…Read more…
“Please come and join London Mayor candidates Diane Abbot MP and Sadiq Khan MP help John Biggs become the Labour Mayor of Tower Hamlets.
Saturday with Diane Abbot, Devons Road DLR at 2pm
We’ll meet at 1.30pm at Stratford stati…Read more…
Facebook has reminded me of this post from last year as well. Read more…
Some more thoughts on May 7th and the aftermath.
First check out this post in TouchStone by Newham’s finest, Nigel Stanley, on the post election day TUC survey.
Nigel argues that this evidence (of voters who considered Labour but ended up votin…Read more…
Dear colleague,
Further to my earlier email, the list of applicants for the London Mayoral selection is:
Diane AbbottTessa JowellKeran KeraiSadiq KhanDavid LammyNeeraj PatilGareth ThomasChristian WolmarConstitue…Read more…
“To UNISON Members,
Make sure you have your say in selecting Labour’s new leader and the Labour candidate for London Mayor.
Sign up now as an Affiliated Supporter of the Labour Party.
Any UNISON member who supports Labour’s aims and values is enti…Read more…
I have previously referred to Ed the Moribund and I was openly critical of his circus act hustings at the last leadership contest surrounded by labour students – an earlier pre-cursor to Milifandom…Read more…
These are some brief initial observations on the outcome of the General Election. Understanding exactly what happened in the General Election will take some time. It makes no sense to draw hasty conclusions on what is a complicated outcome in which a number of different trends appear to have…Read more…
) Labour have a mountain to climb (see very subtle picture left) but we should not in my view be totally beating ourselves up over our performance on Thursday.
Everyone has an opinion nowadays and these are my views for better or for worse. …Read more…
Swingometers. Margins of error. Opinion Polls. Exit polls. Aren’t you sick them? If not yet, then you will be. What I learned from opinion polls is don’t rely on them. Work until you…Read more…
Vote for fairer taxes
such as a Bankers tax, £2 million Mansion tax & a 50p tax rate for the rich,
Vote to abolish
the Bedroom tax and the Health & Social Care Act (NHS privatisation),
Vote to increase
the number of nurses and faster treatment for cancer and access to your GPs
Vote…Read more…
And here’s another thing… Our new weekly blog by ATL general secretary Mary Bousted. Education policy has not been a prominent feature of the election campaign. Political parties have vied for the…Read more…
You might be forgiven for thinking that celebrities would vote Conservative given that they are up there with the country’s top earners, paying the highest tax. However many celebrities from…Read more…
Nope, so Vote LabourRead more…
No, so vote LabourRead more…
Keith Ewing suggests that Scottish independence may come sooner than the high-speed rail link, partly because of ‘Labour’s extraordinary proposal to give quasi-constitutional status to Austerity.’…Read more…
Mark Wright is the assistant director (leadership & management) at AMiE. Following the speech Tristram Hunt gave at the ATL conference outlining Labour’s education policies, this, along with…Read more…
The Co-op is not just another grey PLC with the usual disinterested shareholders. And those of us who love it don’t want it becoming just that. The Co-operative Group is owned by its members,…Read more…
On Monday Labour launches its 2015 General Election manifesto but the ‘work manifesto’ A Better Plan for Britain’s Workplaces published on 1st April, provides an early insight into the party’s…Read more…