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.
Well done to Paxman for puncturing Neal Lawson's balloon last night on Newsnight, introducing Neal as "Neal, err... sorry I've forgotten your surname, from Compass, the think tank not the sandwich maker".
posted by Luke Akehurst at 7:59 am
Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. 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. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
6 Comments:
Compass the sandwich maker? Is this a London thing?
8:33 am, November 22, 2007
They are big school dinner contractors, and not just in London.
9:37 am, November 22, 2007
Compass are surely better known as a driving school?
2:32 pm, November 22, 2007
Compass are a humungous catering company, the former employer of that business guru Gerry Robinson, later of Granada, who rocked up to the NHS one day and siad it could improve business-wise. How very observant of him. Loads of motorway service stations and works cafeterias and the like.
Lawson wasn't too bad though was he Luke? Strange that he gets smeared for a Paxo mistake.
3:58 pm, November 22, 2007
Whatever is your problem with Compass?
At least they are coming up with some ideas - what concerns me about the current crop of right wingers is their entirely managerial approach. It used to be the Fabian Right of the party where ideas were developed - Tony crosland being a notable example.
But the problem now is that we simply don;t appear to have any vision except 'more of the same - and it all tastes a bit like 'yesterday's leftovers'.
This is the problem with what new labour quite quickly became - totally immune to criticism and far too protective.lets be frank. We won three elections on the trot because of how bloody awful the Tories were. Not because of what we had to say. Now, its us who looks tired - and in recent days, inept too.
More of the same just isn't going to work. Nor is more lurching to the Right. With an electable Tory party, why bother with a pale alternative?
We need less neo-liberalism in economic policy, less neo-con foreign policy, and we need to learn how to be social democrats again.
10:25 pm, November 22, 2007
But he wouldn't know your first or second name Luke, and you've got a much bigger ego!
10:22 am, November 23, 2007
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