Ed Miliband is against factionalism. Succeeding Blair and Brown, he has to be. As has been pointed out, the “paradox of post-factionalism” is that everyone counts heads to make sure he is. And to be fair, he’s even opened the door to some of those whom the Blairites judged unpersons — though he hasn’t shown [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jon Cruddas’
Compass and the Leadership
Sep 2nd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.“By this week-end, three quarters of the votes in the 2010 Labour leadership election will have been cast. The contest will effectively be over.” So Dan Hedges at Labour Uncut points out. And the effective end of the contest neatly coincides with the announcement of the result of the Compass ballot on who they’re going [...]
Jon Cruddas on Immigration
May 18th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.The decision by Jon Cruddas not to stand for Leadership should come as no surprise. His campaign for Deputy made clear that he sought a campaigning role, working with the unions, reinvigorating the party at its grassroots, rather than a leadership role. Some of his supporters then would not have supported him for Leader. His [...]
Leadership or Impossibilism?
May 15th, 2010 by Bob Clay.There will be many on the Left who feel that the outcome of the general election could have been a lot worse. The Tories and Liberal Democrats could be exposed as the utterly unprincipled opposite of the bringers of ‘new politics’ in which guise the media has promoted them. Whilst they render themselves more and [...]
