Labourlist column
My Labourlist column this week sets out my organisational priorities for Labour:
http://labourlist.org/2012/05/what-should-labours-organisational-priorities-be/
posted by Luke Akehurst at 10:18 pm
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
http://labourlist.org/2012/05/what-should-labours-organisational-priorities-be/
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.
1 Comments:
■"To restore faith in Labour’s internal democracy with greater transparency in our processes and zero tolerance of fixes and fiddles. We need to determine policy and candidates on merit, not as a competition for who can do the most imaginative stitch-up."
Yes, in 2007 Tony Blair said that he did not know why the Labour Party Conference had not discussed Trident replacement. I did not believe him at the time. However, I now think that, given his own hesitation over the issue, he may well have been telling the truth.
Such debate may well have been blocked because that is what the powers that be thought he wanted.
Before the Labour Party Conference in 2006, no less than 17 CLP motions on Trident were declared out of order.
10:57 am, May 25, 2012
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