The labour movement’s post-election battleground: Part I of II Back in January, I was invited by Left Futures to provide a response to a post by Trevor Fisher. Trevor considers Labour a lost cause when it comes to austerity. This is his conclusion: The objective of the austerity movement is to destroy everything that Lloyd […]
On Progress and the parliamentary candidate selection process
Mar 11th, 2013 by Paul Cotterill.Richard Angell, Deputy Head of Progress party-within-the-party, has written an interesting column on how Labour parliamentary candidates are selected and new rules to increase working-class representation. This might sound dull as ditchwater, but the process is actually a pretty key variable when it comes to what kind of person we end up getting to represent us in […]
