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.
Many thanks to delegates at Walthamstow CLP and Tottenham CLP who voted on Thursday night to nominate me to be a candidate at the 22 November regional conference to represent North and East London CLPs on the London Labour Party Regional Board.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 11:00 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:
So who else is running Luke? In your CLP division or in the others?
11:41 pm, September 11, 2008
Akhtar Beg (Chingford) is the left candidate & sitting member.
There is talk about 2 candidates from Newham, both good people - Alan Griffiths and Unmesh Desai but not sure if they actually running.
Laura Bruni from Walthamstow who is from the left looks uncontested for the women's place.
Sitting members running in most of the rest of London with a more complete left slate than 2 years ago but I don't have all the names.
7:54 am, September 12, 2008
As the left only really has the Central Division CLP reps and Raj Jethwa, who is standing against them?
1:15 am, September 13, 2008
Raj is uncontested I think, as is Francis Prideaux. There may be a vacancy for women's slot in Central CLPs division given Lucy Anderson is running for the NPF position vs. Maggie Cosin.
7:21 pm, September 13, 2008
Don't forget the working classes?
11:32 am, September 15, 2008
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