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'm still in hospital and will be for another 5-7 weeks whilst doing intensive physiotherapy to get myself walking again.I hope to be blogging a bit more from next week.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 10:51 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.
27 Comments:
This sounds pretty serious Luke. I hope you are, literally, back on your feet soon.
11:38 am, April 18, 2009
I look forward to your 'results coverage' for Erith soon.
Just as soon as Downing Street have stuffed the required number of votes into the ballot box to ensure the success of their own candidate.
Just when you think Labour can't possibly get any more corrupt..........they just DO!
Honestly, it's enough to make you vote for B O B Piper LOL
2:08 pm, April 18, 2009
Silent hunter, the various accusations (most of which sound like sour grapes from folk who haven't canvassed as hard or sent as many leaflets) are all against a Blairite candidate, who is thus extremely unlikely to be "backed by Downing Street". Do try to keep up with the different strands of Labour opinion.
2:33 pm, April 18, 2009
Silent hunter, the various accusations (most of which sound like sour grapes from folk who haven't canvassed as hard or sent as many leaflets) are all against a Blairite candidate, who is extremely unlikely to be "backed by Downing Street". Do try to keep up with the different strands of Labour opinion.
2:33 pm, April 18, 2009
Get well soon Luke watch out for those filthy NHS hospitals rather you running the gaunlet of C.diff and MRSA or are you Private??
5:46 pm, April 18, 2009
I'm in an NHS hospital and it is very clean. I wouldn't go private on principle - I don't believe queue jumping because you can pay should be legal.
6:04 pm, April 18, 2009
Hope you get better soon Luke, all the best.
8:01 pm, April 18, 2009
KIKI
What has Japanese pornography got to do with politics?
12:16 am, April 19, 2009
Get well soon
8:27 pm, April 19, 2009
Blimey Luke sounds serious. Keep your chin.
8:57 pm, April 19, 2009
Dear Luke
I've just logged on to check your news, as I do from time to time and I am very sorry to learn of your illness. I do hope that you make a full and speedy recovery and we are once again able to cross swords (blunt ones)at Council in the not to distant future. Once again best wishes.
Michael
5:01 pm, April 20, 2009
Get well soon Luke. We need you to put these Tory windbags in their place. Labour should take no lectures in corruption from the party that gave us Neil Hamilton, Jeffrey Archer, Joathan Aitken, Shirley Porter, and more recently, Derek Conway.
6:26 pm, April 20, 2009
kiki is best friends with Richard Timney. You know the husband of Jacqui Spliff who gets paid £40,000per annum to watch porn at tax payers expense
8:14 pm, April 20, 2009
Arnold all politicians are corrupt left and right. There is no difference between Labour and Conservative. They all stand for their own selfish aims and that of big business.
Come the revolution!!!!
(right wing that is)
10:11 am, April 21, 2009
Hope you get well soon, very sad to hear about your illness.
11:55 am, April 21, 2009
Sorry to hear you're still in hospital - get well soon
3:00 pm, April 21, 2009
Well another year and another budget,,,,but this one may be interesting.
No matter what happens now or next year we all know there are going to be massive cuts in public spending and an increase in tax. This will happen regardless of who wins the next election.
My big question is what are they going to cut. I fear that it will be leisure services and adult education that wil be first hit....in particular leisure centres and night school classes.
10:54 pm, April 21, 2009
Hope you are feeling better soon.
2:46 pm, April 22, 2009
I've been there too Luke and was very well treated in a first-rate NHS hospital. This has excellent doctors, clean and modern wards, attentive nurses and modern comforts like digital TVs at every bedside. It would be difficult to conceive of a better private experience. My experience is that the NHS is very good and very responsive for serious illness, but that more routine conditions can put you on an unreasonably long waiting list. So the hospital may be good, but you wait far too long to get to it. That is where private healthcare has some role to play.
6:18 pm, April 24, 2009
Dead thanks to a technicality. Isn't this awful?
Don't mention Hazel Blears!
2:18 am, April 25, 2009
Hope you make a speedy recovery, Luke.
3:07 am, April 25, 2009
Blimey. Hope you get well soon as Luke. You may be wrong about all manner of party issues, IMO, but your campaigning zeal and ability will be missed in the Euro campaigns. Take care.
4:16 pm, April 25, 2009
Luke
By a bizarre coincidence i also suffer from CIDP, having being very ill about two years ago, and now being in the long recovery phase.
the condition does improve over time, although to be honest the ocassional pain stays with you, but my experience is that the debiliating aspect that stops your limbs working sort of gets better on its own.
Luke - if you want to chat with someone who has had the same thing and come out the other end, please fell free to contact me
office@socialistunity.com
6:28 pm, April 26, 2009
Incidently, I was also treated by the NHS (having opted out of private health insurance on principle, like Luke)
the NHS were absolutely brilliant.
6:30 pm, April 26, 2009
Poetic justice. Straight out of late Dennis Potter.
Our boy's got fucked up for the fuck ups he's imposed on everyone else.
And now he's going to have to terms with the NHS. £100bn and he'll wait yonks for a crap nurse and crap doctor and get crapped on.
Someone glue a red flag to the poor bastard's dick.
9:52 pm, April 26, 2009
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7886780711843120756
Try the link above its a very interesting film about the secret "global elite" Obama is popular. That is the only reason he got elected. He is the right one for the purposes of the new world order clan
10:26 am, April 27, 2009
Its time we done away with parliament as the majority of MP's work for the Global Elite and not their constituents!
The system needs restructuring MPs should be replaced by elected people deputies and must spend at least 1 day doing manual work and live on the average workers pay!
10:43 am, April 27, 2009
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