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.
I was impressed to learn from a friend from Islington that Labour Party General Secretary Ray Collins actually turns up to his local ward party meetings in Highbury West to hear what ordinary grassroots members have to say. This is a very good sign and I hope other senior people in the party are as diligent.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 9:19 am
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.
10 Comments:
He might do along with the Local party and MP, but most of the Cabinet and PM have joined up with big business to exploit the working classes. All the leading parliamentary parties really are united behind the scenes to rob the workers. You can have a yellow, red and blue car, but they can all have the same body work and components-This now applies to the parliamentarian parties!!
6:11 pm, October 02, 2008
I read an interesting piece on the recent Conference in todays Guardian
Tony Benn said "Conference has become a ministerial press conference, in the middle of a trade fair."
Sadly this is a very accurate description
8:48 pm, October 02, 2008
The problem is that so many of those grassroots have left the party. And not only left-wingers. I've never associated myself with the left of the party, but its gone too far right for me.
11:00 pm, October 02, 2008
Bloody hell guys, I think the comments here are a bit off topic!
This is a welcome development. Pity Gordon had to be shoved into accepting him...
1:01 am, October 03, 2008
Phew somebody turning up at a meeting it must be good in England.
9:43 am, October 03, 2008
Its not only in the ward branches senior NLP people should attend-They should also attend local Union branch meetings to get their views from the workers and find out just how bad people are treated and they should attend their local Trades Council, as J McDonnell and C Corbyn do?
10:37 am, October 03, 2008
I used to see the Leader of the Islignton Labour Party about ages ago. She gave me the horny horn actually .
So ?
11:00 am, October 03, 2008
MANDY IS BACK!!!!
11:35 am, October 03, 2008
Any bets for how long.
12:14 pm, October 03, 2008
as so many other comments are off topic today ...
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