A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left. Just for the record: all the views expressed here are entirely personal and do not necessarily represent the positions of any organisations I am a member of.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 5:44 pm
Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Supporter of Europe, NATO/nuclear deterrence, Israel, electoral reform. Guardian reader. Dad. Oxford resident. Unite union member. Employment history as a Labour Party Organiser, Local Government Political Assistant, Director at a Public Affairs company. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
5 Comments:
Maybe it's time to start pushing for more statues in Hackney?
11:32 pm, July 10, 2006
I would have thought you were campaigning for the deification of his grandson.
10:38 am, July 11, 2006
You must be confused about this progeny issue, Bob. See my article "Statue Competition Entries Flood In" - Meg Hillier nomination'
11:21 am, July 11, 2006
An little-known fact about Morrison during his year as Mayor of Hackney - he refused to wear the fur-lined robe and other trappings of office, including the civic chain (presumably they were emblems of bourgeois oppression of the working man? He was quite young when he was Mayor!). So when they took his photo to hang with the other civic mayors in Hackney Town Hall, they had to paint the chain on - you can see it if you look closely.
1:20 pm, July 11, 2006
Jess, that reminds me of the photographs of Mayors that used to decorate the corridors of Walsall Council. In 1953 I think it was, the Mayor died before his civic photograph could be taken. So... they found a picture of him and superimposed his head on to the body of a previous Mayor. It was soooo bloody obvious. Not the last two-faced politician to run that town though.
3:07 pm, July 13, 2006
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