The picture is from last Thursday’s social at Custom House branch, West Ham Labour where the guest speaker was BBC political reporter, Iain Watson. He spoke about his new book on the failure of the Labour Party to win the last general election “F…Read more…
Getting to Work Shouldn’t be a luxury. But Tory Tickets Cost a Fortune.
This morning I was outside Plaistow Underground station with West Ham Labour Party comrades handing out leaflets on fare rises to commuters going into work. Outside railway and bus stations across the country, Labour and trade union activists wer…Read more…
Sunday Night Live: Syria and Airstrikes
A week on from the Commons vote, which extended Britain’s bombing campaign against ISIS into Syria, this Sunday Night Live special explores where now for the multinational coalition against Daesh.
With on-going controversy surrounding Cameron’s widely challenged claim of 70,000 moderate Syrian…Read more…
Labour must stop knocking seven bells out of one another, says UNISON’s Dave Prentis
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “The spending review is just three days away. Millions of working families anxiously await the Chancellor’s plans. “They’re scared about what he has in…Read more…
Boleyn By-Election Saturday
Picture from yesterday afternoon’s meeting point for Labour supporters. Veronica Oakeshott (centre with rosset) is the Labour candidate for the by-election in Boleyn ward, East Ham, London pictured alongside Newham Mayor, Sir Robin Wales and local acti…Read more…
Boleyn Ward By-Election: Thursday canvass
Picture from canvass last night in Boleyn ward, Newham. It was another successful door knock with the Labour candidate, Veronica Oakeshott (middle). It was a little cold and dark, so not much discussion about politics but very solid results for Labour….Read more…
Vote for the Labour Party Candidate, Gordon Miller, in Aylesford Green Ward By-Election Thursday November 19 2015
Good luck to Gordon and the Labour team in Ashford for tomorrow. Read more…
Boleyn by-election – on the knocker on a windy tuesday
This evening I was with the Labour candidate for the Newham Boleyn ward by election, Veronica Oakeshott and comrades from East and West Ham Labour Party. We met outside Upton Park station in East Ham.
It was windy (#StormBarney) but only a little wet….Read more…
With tolerance and decency
Those Gods who famously wish to destroy by first making mad have certainly been working overtime within the Parliamentary Labour Party lately. We have open defiance of the elected leader,…Read more…
Liam Byrne’s speech: a bit wrong, a bit sketchy, a bit interesting
Via Chris Dillow, I picked up this speech by Liam Byrne. It’s interesting to read someone who obviously disagrees with Jeremy Corbyn try and come to terms with the new centre of gravity in Labour. It’s worth noting, too, he uses the term “neo-liberalis…Read more…
Sunday Night Live: Corbyn and the (new) Labour Landscape
This looks interesting. 5-6.30pm next Sunday 25 October 2015 at Stratford Picture House Bar, London, E15 (5 mins from Stratford Station). I wonder if the West Ham Corbynistas Fashion Gurus will be present? Read more…
Labour should oppose parishes move and demand referendum
Just when I was thinking that’s a good letter from Des Moffatt (“Beware Parish Plan”) he said this: “…I am not necessarily against going this way provided the citizens of Swindon know what is involved and the opportunity for well off areas to pull up the ladder is avoided.” This…Read more…
Labour’s new kinder way will help to win people back to the party
UNISON welcomes Jeremy Corbyn’s vision of a ‘kinder, more caring’ society
The article Labour’s new kinder way will help to win people back to the party first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Free software is to code as labor unions are to workers and neither are revolutionary
Full Disclosure: I work full time for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the views expressed here do not reflect the views of the FSF or my position at the FSF. This is a point that has been…Read more…
Free software is to code as labor unions are to workers and neither are revolutionary
Full Disclosure: I work full time for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the views expressed here do not reflect the views of the FSF or my position at the FSF. This is a point that has been…Read more…
Labour Party Conference 2015. A view.
I’ve just finished packing for Conference and will soon be on my way to catch the train for Brighton. For the Party this should prove to be a pivotal Conference.
After the shock and devastation that we all felt following the Conservative victory…Read more…
Solidarity should be binding
‘Cut him some slack’. ‘Give him a chance’. Just a few of the vox pops of members of the public who are as fed up with the British press in its predictable onslaught against Jeremy Corbyn as I am….Read more…
Labour’s Shadow Cabinet: collaborating with the enemy
Goethe famously said “All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the tree of life springs ever green.” Life sometimes throws up the unimaginable or the seemingly impossible. Even when Jeremy Corbyn miraculously got on the ballot paper for Labour leader nobody imagined that he might actually win the…Read more…
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses TUC Congress 2015
Despite being elected as Labour Leader only four days ago, Jeremy Corbyn, travelled down to address Congress. When he appeared there was a genuine standing ovation before he said a word. The former NUPE official (a founder union of UNISON) started his …Read more…
Austerity is not the only way, Prentis tells Newcastle rally
This is our chance to create a new path that offers hope that offers opportunity to all, UNISON general secretary tells Corbyn rally in Newcastle
The article Austerity is not the only way, Prentis…Read more…