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.
The first batch of leadership nominations have been posted on the Labour website. I believe this will be updated twice a day. http://www2.labour.org.uk/leadership-2010
posted by Luke Akehurst at 6:11 pm
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.
10 Comments:
I guess many MPs weren't in London today.
Maybe tomorrow we will have a more telling update.
6:19 pm, May 24, 2010
You might enjoy this, as a Miliband-endorser and a doorstep campaigner.
http://theoldpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/05/winners-vote-miliband.html
11:12 pm, May 24, 2010
Miliband's, Balls or the Abbott for leader is a bad idea-its best to clear out all the New Labour clutter as these candidates will look clones of Blair & Brown.
John McDonnell can save the Labour party vote for him?
9:52 am, May 25, 2010
Brown should have stepped down and let John McDonnell stand as PM that year. Brown has not changed from Blair's awful arrogant leadership style and actions. The trouble with Labour is they have been trying so hard to get a better class of supporters & Voters and ignoring their long term Voters/supporters, who are leaving it in masses.
Labour should ditch all these right wing cronies and fascist policies and let Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell take over!
9:57 am, May 25, 2010
Bloody Hell !!!
"Labour should ditch all these right wing cronies and fascist policies and let Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell take over!"
Labour led by LINO's ?
Nice to see those who kept Thatcher in power crawling out of the woodwork.
GW
10:15 am, May 25, 2010
Sad to see that those who lost us millions of votes by carrying out Thatcherist policies still dare to show their faces.
10:24 am, May 25, 2010
Well I am still here, will you Labour in Name Only be ?
I doubt it ! Equating Tony Blair with that woman descibes how out of touch Labour Left Forum is.
GW
2:44 pm, May 25, 2010
Erm, yes, we're obviously all still here. 'LINO' (borrowing clichés off American Republicans - how apt) or not.
And failing to see the similarities between the Conservatives and New Labour shows how tragically out of touch you are with Labour members and voters.
2:51 pm, May 25, 2010
This is an old, old record. There were always going to be people who were more interested in accusing comrades of right-wing deviationism and "fascism" in show trials than in pulling together to challenge the National Government. I suggest these sad relics of the 1980s should be left to get on with attempting to shaft the Labour Party on their own. It's not their party anymore, if ever it was. And they know it.
5:33 pm, May 25, 2010
LINO is a pretty good description of Tony Blair, I'd have thought.
It's also amusing that it's the left that always gets accused of 'living in the past' but the right that seems to want to bring it up all the time, over and over again. For some people, it is forever 1979, or 1983, or even 1930. And it ain't us.
5:39 pm, May 25, 2010
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