Labourlist column
My Labourlist column this week looks at the riots:
http://www.labourlist.org/from-optimist-to-pessimist
posted by Luke Akehurst at 11:14 am
Monday, August 15, 2011
http://www.labourlist.org/from-optimist-to-pessimist
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- 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.
1 Comments:
bThere were no riots at all until the police shooting of Mark Duggan. And, as has happened in the past, the original version of events seems to be unravelling.
And yet, when the police have given a false version of events, they usually seem to get away with it.
10:40 am, August 16, 2011
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