On the Telly
I was on the Daily Politics on BBC2 yesterday, talking (for about 20 seconds) about Blue Labour:
posted by Luke Akehurst at 7:21 pm
Friday, July 01, 2011
About Me
- Name: Luke Akehurst
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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.
4 Comments:
Blue Labour? I say Go For It! If it sounds like a Tory and acts like a Tory, we might as well make it look like a Tory!
5:21 am, July 02, 2011
You're getting fatter and losing your hair.
Grow a beard and you'll make a half-decent Santa this year.
11:51 am, July 02, 2011
Well done Luke. The 'Red Tory / Blue Labour' rebranding is unpacked in this recent LSE debate between Lord Glasman and Jesse Norman MP on the differences between the 'Big Society' and the 'Good Society'; Glasman wants a refoundation of Labour using its co-operative movement, mutualist and 19th century Christian-socialist origins (at least I think that's the gist of it, quite entertaining though).
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1046
8:49 am, July 03, 2011
Luke,
Well said fella, am following this debate on Progress.
Kind Regards,
Ralph Baldwin
9:38 am, July 08, 2011
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