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.
Delegates heading for the venue at "ICC London" should get off the DLR at Prince Regent, not at Custom House. DLR trains bound for Beckton at the weekend leave both Tower Gateway and Stratford International every 10 minutes, Canning Town every 5 minutes. If I was arriving in London at St Pancras or Kings Cross, I would have a through ticket to Stratford International and get the DLR from there.
"Then, because the Party had moved so far to the extremes in the early 1980s"
ReplyDeleteThe idea that Labour had moved far to the left is an exaggeration. The leadership and most of the PLP supported the Falklands War during this period.
Delegates heading for the venue at "ICC London" should get off the DLR at Prince Regent, not at Custom House.
ReplyDeleteDLR trains bound for Beckton at the weekend leave both Tower Gateway and Stratford International every 10 minutes, Canning Town every 5 minutes.
If I was arriving in London at St Pancras or Kings Cross, I would have a through ticket to Stratford International and get the DLR from there.